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en-wikipedia-org-2395		Hostility - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1368	288	50	Hostility is seen as form of emotionally charged aggressive behavior. Hostility/hospitality[edit] In psychological terms, George Kelly considered hostility as the attempt to extort validating evidence from the environment to confirm types of social prediction, constructs, that have failed.[10] Instead of reconstructing their constructs to meet disconfirmations with better predictions, the hostile person attempts to force or coerce the world to fit their view, even if this is a forlorn hope, and even if it entails emotional expenditure and/or harm to self or others.[11] In this sense hostility is a form of psychological extortion an attempt to force reality to produce the desired feedback,[12] even by acting out in bullying by individuals and groups in various social contexts, in order that preconceptions become ever more widely validated. Kelly's theory of cognitive hostility thus forms a parallel to Leon Festinger's view that there is an inherent impulse to reduce cognitive dissonance.[13] 	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2395.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2395.txt