Instrumental Violence

Instrumental violence is goal-oriented aggression or violence that occurs as a by-product of an individual's attempting to achieve a superordinate goal. Early 20th-century theorist Edward Thorndike's law of effect is useful in understanding the nature of instrumental abuse, as it is ...

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