Avital Mentovich
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Faculty member in the Department of Sociology, University of Essex. Her contributions to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (2010) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (2)
Frustration-aggression hypothesis, psychological explanation of aggressive behaviour as stemming from the frustration of goals. The hypothesis was applied in studies of scapegoating and hate crimes, which indicated that as sources of frustration accumulate—during an economic crisis, for…
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