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Running head: Compare and Contrast 1 Compare and Contrast Cognitive Models of Aggression Elizabeth Caro Northcentral University

My name is María, I am 38 years old, and I am a publicist. Ten years ago, I had to move to another city due to the lack of job opportunities where I lived. I come to my first day of work, of course, I managed, but I was very discreet to make an excellent first impression on my colleagues. Or colleagues, because it turned out that my team consisted of only women, six to be more exact. At first, I felt something strange in the environment that did not make me feel very comfortable, but I put it down to my nerves from the first day. With time I learned my work in the company, I'm got involved in campaigns and in the different projects that were assigned to me, but the strange atmosphere did not dissipate. One day I arrived at the office as usual, at 9:00 am, my time of entry. I went upstairs and saw that my team had a meeting with the CEOs; they had called it at 8:30. Nobody warned me. I enter the meeting, and my direct boss says to one of the managers: You see, Roberto, I told you I was not responsible. We would have stayed with Beatriz. It was at that moment when I found out that I had come in to replace Beatriz, a great friend of my entire team and that they had raced for reasons unknown to me until now. And from there, hell began I arrived before everyone else every day to not miss any crucial meetings since they organized them behind my back to look bad with the bosses. As I arrived early, my boss's secretary told me that she was doing it to make others look bad and make them look irresponsible and mediocre. In all the time I was working there, I was only late once. My work team applied the law office to me for a week, arguing that they had lost a significant account due to my delay. It was a lie.

On another occasion, we were asked to run a local government project to help one of the most disadvantaged sectors, the prostitutes. It occurred to my team to dress up like whores so as not to have to hire models, in addition to being funny. They insisted until exhaustion that I characterize myself as her. Even one of them told me: "It would come out very natural for you." They never got me to dress in such away. I no longer left my house at all, was always thinking about what was happening to me. I felt frustrated and helpless. How can your dream job turn into a nightmare? If I quit, my professional life would end because it was a very important company. At the last humiliation was, at the end of the year project, the company was going to shoot a commercial with boys from a paid school. As my team loved to dress up, they commented that I would also play extras in the video. I told them that I wanted to participate, to which my boss replied: You? No, not at all; it can't appear in the video because the women who come from a town like you are here could only play the cleaning ladies at the school? With my most profound respect for the people dedicated to cleaning in schools, they told me that comment to make me feel bad; you just have to read the context. After that episode, I submitted my resignation. For a year, I did not work on anything, not even look for it. Just thinking about going back into a company caused me anxiety and anxiety attacks. I even suffered from agoraphobia; I couldn't be in open places and with many people. Now feel much better; I went to therapy with an excellent psychologist who told me that what they had done to me in that job was known as mobbing.

Type of behavior Perspective Theoretical Brief explanation Moblin It refers to the attribution of tasks that involve a quantitative overload and a qualitative deficit. Quantitative overload is one which, as in stress, is defined by high demand and little control. The qualitative deficiency is understood as the obligation to carry out repetitive, boring, sometimes useless, or poorly elaborated work when workers are forced to do their jobs poorly. Anyone can be a victim of bullying, but there are more conducive professional contexts, as we have just seen, and higher risk factors in some people. Other risk factors to take into account would include elements from the organizational structure, such as the location of companies in suburban areas with high rates of violence, the lack of equipment, to other purely cultural ones, such as the permissiveness of violence and intolerance for part of social groups. Hostility Hostility is a negative evaluation of people and is often accompanied by a clear intention to harm them, in the case of reactive aggression. The trigger is considered to be the perception of a threat, so in these cases, the critical element is a processing error called hostile attribution bias or, more recently. Hostile attribution style; This bias refers to a tendency to incorrectly Hostile intentions towards behaviors that cause us harm is a universal tendency, so being able to discriminate that an action that causes damage could be motivated by a benign purpose, subject to the cognitive development that begins to be achieved in around the third year of life. Not all children learn to identify signs appropriately. Some may develop a tendency to attribute hostile

external manifestations at the motor and behavioral level would be: fast-talking, tremors, stuttering, imprecision when speaking, haste when acting, emotional outbursts, broken voice, excessive eating, lack of appetite, impulsive behaviors, nervous laughter, and frequent yawning. All these consequences deteriorate the quality of interpersonal relationships, both family and work, and can cause these relationships' breakdown.