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Hostile and Instrumental Aggression

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Hostile aggression is driven by anger and aims at harm itself; instrumental aggression is a means to some other goal.

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A retaliatory strike is hostile; a robbery's threat is instrumental.

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A single act can carry both motives. The distinction is about the aim, and aims can be mixed.

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