By John Di Pippo There are different reasons why a person may act aggressively towards other human beings. The person may act this way because of his culture or the way he was brought up in society. The person does not, however, act this way based on instinct alone.
Aggression is a molded, learned behavior.
A human being must have both environmental and instinctual factors in order to display aggression. The combination of instincts and environment determines a person s behavior. This is based on the theory that everything human beings do would have to be learned from other human beings. Rather than being an uncontrollable instinct, a person s behavior is something that is taught to him. For example, a newborn baby is breathing because it is an involuntary reflex.