Baily and Ostrov directed this study toward four different predictions. They first made a prediction on gender and their self-reported aggressive behavioral types. Men and women are different when it comes to expressing their aggressiveness, men are said to be more physically aggressive than women are. “We predicted that men will self-report higher levels of function types of physical aggression, in comparison to women. In contrast, we predicted that women would self-report higher levels of the function types of relation aggression, versus men.” (Baily and Ostrov, 2007) Baily and Ostrov predicted that men are more physically aggressive than women, such as punching someone in the heat of the moment or punching a wall. Though when it comes to women, they express their aggression verbally. The second hypothesis…show more content… “The main goal of this study was to analyze the justification of interpersonal aggression in various situations or contexts.” (Pena, Andreu, Grana, Pahlavan, and Ramirez) The researchers wanted to test how individuals justify hostile or moderate aggression personally and how they think about it. Justification of aggression is also known as normative beliefs, “The justification of aggression or normative beliefs about it, is a cognition factor emphasized in many studies on aggressive behavior. This especially clear in the case of the theory of social learning (Bandura, 1976) as possible explanation of aggression.” (Pena, Andreu, Grana, Pahlavan, and Ramirez) Based on the theory of social learning, our acceptance or explanation of our behavior plays a role while being in a social environment. In environments were aggression is accepted, individuals are more liley to be comfortable to act in an aggressive behavior than environments that act in an aggressive behavior is not
