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What does aggression mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
  2. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
  3. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
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Not for him the flared-nostril aggression of a manager-class cybercrat, or the wall-eyed stare of the technologist.
Such reductionism is done purposefully to justify military aggression, he added.
Dr. Young has found that taking tryptophan can affect human social behavior, decreasing aggression, irritability and quarrelsomeness.
He is apparently quite passive, and puts up with all this verbal aggression from his wife.
A third component of reactive aggression is affect, and specifically anger.
Just bear in mind the distinction between assertiveness and aggression if you have to jolly them along.

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