Can be very adaptive. Characterized by more vigorous efforts more variable responses Escape or Withdrawal . Most persistent and frequent response to frustration, but it is not the first or only reaction. Displaced aggression . Long chains of displacement sometimes occur.
Psychologists attribute much hostility and destructiveness in our society to displaced aggression.
When unemployment increases, so does child abuse. A person who has become a habitual target of displaced aggression. Correlation between the price of cotton and the number of lynching of Blacks in the South between 1880 and 1930. Easiest conflict to resolve. Not choosing may be impossible or equally undersirable.