Aggressive behavior creates hostile environments through feedback from others

Evidence

To the extent that heavy viewing of televised violence fosters aggressive styles of behavior, it influences how individuals construe troublesome events, the quality of their interpersonal relationships, and the types of social environments they construct. Behaving aggressively generally draws rejective or hostile reactions from others (Dodge, 1991; Patterson, 1986; Raush, 1965; Raush, Barry, Hertel, & Swain, 1974). Through such transactional processes aggressive individuals create hostile environments, whereas those who behave in a friendlier manner create amiable social milieus. Thus, by fostering aggressive proclivities, televised influence can leave its mark in the courses lives take. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 767

Categorization

• XREF: This transactional self-fulfilling-social-environment loop echoes the positive feedback loops noted in the Milgrom trade-institutions chapter on how behavior shapes community structures.
• SEED: Angle for an essay: hostile and friendly personality styles as self-fulfilling prophecies that construct their own social worlds — extends beyond TV to any behavioral disposition.