The states that people who are disappointed in their efforts to achieve a highly desired goal will respond with a pattern of assertiveness toward others.

frustration-aggression hypothesis

Explanation:

Frustration is anything that prevents us from achieving a goal. This theory has contradictory results: sometimes frustration increased aggressiveness and sometimes not. Justifiable frustration remains frustrating but triggers less aggression than a frustration we perceive as unjustified.

The basic postulates suggest that many people have learned to respond to their frustrations in a non-aggressive way. The initial experience of anger can be intensified, enriched, differentiated, reduced or completely eliminated if people activate thoughts, feelings, conceptions and social norms about emotions and behaviors that would be appropriate in certain circumstances.

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