@article{ref1,
title="Clarification of the instigation to action concept in the frustration-aggression hypothesis",
journal="Journal of abnormal and social psychology",
year="1955",
author="Haner, Charles F. and Brown, Patricia Ann",
volume="51",
number="2",
pages="204-206",
abstract="30 grade school children were placed in a pseudo-game situation where the E could thwart the S at any desired distance from the goal without the S realizing the arbitrary nature of the thwarting. The S is aware of distance to the goal at all times. A measure of an aggressive expression of frustration is made by determining the force S uses to push a plunger to silence a buzzer which sounds at the end of the trial. The findings seem to suggest that proximity to the goal at which frustration occurs will affect the resultant aggression. &quot;However, the results are neither predictable nor explicable unless instigation to action is conceived of as a joint function of drive and habit strength.&quot; (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)<p />",
language="",
issn="0096-851X",
doi="10.1037/h0044818",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0044818"
}