Displaced Aggression Summary

Displaced Aggression (DA): Aggression directed at a target that is not the original source of provocation.
Triggered Displaced Aggression (TDA): High levels of aggression towards someone who provokes minorly due to prior strong provocations.

Situations conducive to DA:
- Provocation has immaterial sources (e.g., economic issues).
- Provocation source leaves before retaliation (e.g., vandals).
- Provocateur has power over the aggressor (e.g., boss humiliating an employee).

Aggressive Priming: Activation of aggressive thoughts and readiness to act aggressively, often following aversive events.
General Aggression Model (GAM): Proposes that related memories are activated together, leading to aggression through cognitive, emotional, and physiological pathways.
Anger Rumination: Sustained focus on anger-inducing incidents can maintain aggression levels, prolonging aggressive priming and increasing chances of TDA.
Target Attributes: Dissimilarity or perceived negative characteristics in potential targets increase likelihood of receiving displaced aggression.
Cognitive Load: High working memory demand can increase TDA by decreasing self-control during aggressive incidents.

Common manifestations include domestic violence, animal abuse, and youth gang violence.
Groups like gang-affiliated youth show higher TDA towards out-group members in revenge contexts.

Mitigation strategies: Develop empathy through self-disclosure, decrease inter-group biases, and reduce anger rumination to limit the risk of TDA.