Abstract
Bjorkqvist, K. (1990). The origin of aggression: Theoretical aspects. Nordisk Psykologi, 42, 233–249. Three theories about the origin of aggressive behaviour are discussed: 1) the instinct (German: Trieb) theory, proposed by Freud (1930) and Lorenz (1963), 2) the frustration-aggression hypothesis (Dollard, Doob, Miller, Mowrer & Sears (1939) and its revised version (Miller, 1941), and 3) the social learning theory (Miller & Dollard, 1941) revised and adapted for aggressive behaviour by Bandura (1973). It is concluded that the instinct theory has been refuted, while there is support for the revised versions of both the frustration-aggression hypothesis and the social learning theory of aggression. Although anger is a biologically based emotion, aggressive behavioural patterns are learnt either through modelling or conditioning. Aggression is often instigated by frustration, but frustration can lead to other types of behaviour as well. Aggressive behaviour can occur also without previous frustration (i.e., ...
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