Participants in one experiment were either frustrated or not frustrated. They then were given what they thought was an opportunity to administer electric shocks to either the person who had frustrated them or a stranger. This experiment was designed to test which part of the frustration aggression hypothesis?

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The experiment was designed to test the displacement aspect of the frustration-aggression hypothesis, which suggests that if individuals cannot direct their aggression towards the source of frustration, they may displace it onto an unrelated target, such as a stranger in this context.

Participants in One Experiment Were Either Frustrated or Not Frustrated