After a particularly rough day at work during which her boss screamed at her,Anja came home and started yelling at her daughter for not putting her laundry away.This is an example of displaced aggression.

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Displaced aggression refers to taking out one's anger or frustration on someone or something else who is not the cause of the original emotional arousal. In this example, Anja's boss was the cause of her emotional arousal, but she displaced her aggression onto her daughter by yelling at her for something unrelated to the actual issue.

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