Sports Spectators Who Start Fights, Throw Bottles, and Tear Down

question 166

Multiple Choice

Sports spectators who start fights, throw bottles, and tear down goal posts after their team wins the game illustrates the possibility that aggression

• A)can occur in the absence of frustration.
• B)is encouraged by any frustration that makes people uncomfortable.
• C)can be caused by a state of "learned helplessness."
• D)is caused by instinctual drives that require catharsis to lower one's aggressiveness.

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