Understanding aggression

Understanding human aggression: New insights from neuroscience.

The present paper reviews and summarizes the basic findings concerning the nature of the neurobiological and behavioral characteristics of aggression and rage. For heuristic purposes, the types of aggression will be reduced to two categories - defensive rage (affective defense) and predatory attack. This approach helps explain both the behavioral properties of aggression as well as the underlyi...

Understanding the personality disorder and aggression relationship: an investigation using contemporary aggression theory.

Research has consistently demonstrated a link between certain personality disorders (PDs) and increased rates of aggression and violence. At present, understanding of the mechanisms that underlie this relationship is limited. This study was designed to examine the contention (Gilbert & Daffern, 2011) that the application of a contemporary psychological aggression theory, the General Aggression ...

Lessons learned: recent advances in understanding and preventing childhood aggression.

In the present chapter, we summarize and integrate recent developments in the field of childhood aggression and prevention science. Our primary goal is to synthesize these developments into a core set of advances or "lessons learned" since the 1970s in understanding and preventing childhood aggression, and to suggest areas where exciting new advances are most likely to occur in the years to com...

Understanding Stress and Aggression Behaviors among Urban Youth

Understanding supervisor-targeted aggression: a within-person, between-jobs design.

The authors investigated predictors of supervisor-targeted workplace aggression among 105 "moonlighters" (employed adults who work 2 jobs, each with a different supervisor), as a way of examining the relative role played by within-subject situational differences and between-subjects individual differences. Individual difference variables (self-esteem, history of aggression) explained a similar ...