ABSTRACT
While aggression has been used as an inclusive term to capture diverse behavior containing hostility, harm, and violation, there is so little common ground among scholars that we might profitably start by establishing what it is not, according to Diane Gill:
An attitude, emotion or motive [. . .] Wanting to hurt someone is not aggression. ANGER and thoughts might play a role in aggressive behavior, but they are not necessary or defining characteristics [. . .] Accidental harm is not aggression [. . .] kicking a bench is not [. . .] sadomasochistic and suicidal acts [are not].
