The frustration aggression hypothesis
The frustration aggression hypothesis
Explanation
The frustration-aggression hypothesis is one of the earliest aggression theories.
It was first proposed by a group of Yale psychologists in 1939.
The Frustration aggression hypothesis assumed frustration as the most important cause of aggression.
In its strongest and primary form, the hypothesis proposed that
"the occurrence of aggressive behavior always presupposes the existence of frustration and, contrariwise, that the existence of frustration always leads to some form of aggression".
The hypothesis further defines frustration as an environmental event as "an interference with the occurrence of an instigated goal-response".