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 2. Note formThe deindividuation approach is one way of understanding aggression.Some approaches challenge the deindividuation approach.Some approaches emphasise thinking of aggression in terms of groups – it might be a weakness of the deindividuation approach if this did not consider the role of groups in understanding aggressive behaviour.Group approaches to aggression can be used to challenge and evaluate the deindividuation approach.Another perspective suggests that we can question how aggression has been defined – it might be possible to challenge or question the definitions within the deindividuation approach as well as within social psychology in general. This idea might challenge most of the literature considered in the essay, so it might work best towards the end.What I need to find out and where:What the deindividuation approach is (I have some lecture notes on this).What the evidence is and how the empirical evidence and the theory can be evaluated or thought about in different ways, from different perspectives (the lecture notes give some information and the textbook provides more detail on this).What approaches challenge the deindividuation approach (I have some lecture notes on this).How group approaches to aggression might challenge aspects of the deindividuation approach (not sure of the best sources of information for this).What is being argued by the approach that questions how we define aggression and whether this can be used to challenge deindividuation and other approaches to understanding aggressive behaviour approach (not sure of the best sources of information for this).

Note: In this list there is uncertainty regarding the best source of information for the last two points. Be alert, wandering around looking for information is as precarious as Frodo succumbing to the power of the ring as he is about to throw it into the fires of Mount Doom, or facing the zombie-like husks of Fortnite: Save the World. It takes a heroic effort not to be side-tracked or lose focus as the procrastination forces are ranged against you. Will you win through? Being aware that you are highly likely to get side-tracked when wondering where to find information can in itself help. You need to get into the mindset of Sherlock Holmes – this is detective work, you are locating and finding out information and you can even do it without a pipe and deerstalker.