The frustration-aggression hypothesis, also called the frustration-aggression-displacement theory, is a theory of aggression proposed in 1939 by John Dollard, Neal Miller, Leonard Doob, Orval Mowrer and Robert Sears, and later developed further by Miller in 1941 and by Leonard Berkowitz in 1989. The theory holds that aggression results from the frustration of blocking a person's efforts to reach a goal. As first formulated it stated that frustration always precedes aggression and that aggression is always its consequence; two years later Miller and Sears revised the hypothesis so that frustration instead creates a need to respond, of which aggression is only one possible outcome, while any aggressive behavior that does occur is still traced back to some frustration.
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Core ClaimThe frustration-aggression hypothesis holds that aggression is the result of blocking, or frustrating, a person's efforts to attain a goal, later reformulated to treat frustration as a necessary but not sufficient condition for aggression. 1 Evidence Standing Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
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The frustration-aggression hypothesis, also known as the frustration-aggression-displacement theory, is a theory of aggression proposed by John Dollard, Neal Miller, Leonard Doob, Orval Mowrer, and Robert Sears in 1939, and further developed by Neal Miller in 1941 and Leonard Berkowitz in 1989. The theory says that aggression is the result of blocking, or frustrating, a person's efforts to attain a goal.
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The frustration-aggression hypothesis, also known as the frustration-aggression-displacement theory, is a theory of aggression proposed by John Dollard, Neal Miller, Leonard Doob, Orval Mowrer, and Robert Sears in 1939, and further developed by Neal Miller in 1941 and Leonard Berkowitz in 1989.
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The frustration-aggression hypothesis ... is a theory of aggression proposed by John Dollard, Neal Miller, Leonard Doob, Orval Mowrer, and Robert Sears in 1939
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