Aggressive Behavior - Current Perspectives

In this important work twelve eminent scholars review the latest theoretical work on human aggressive behavior. Emerging theories of aggression; peers, sex-roles, and aggression; environmental investigation and mitigation of aggression; development of adult aggression; and group aggression in adolescents and adults are all discussed in detail to provide clinicians, researchers, and students with a cutting-edge overview of the field.

List of contents

I. Emerging Theories of Human Aggression.- 1 Theories of Aggression: From Drives to Cognitions.- 2 Moral Cognition and Childhood Aggression.- 3 Is Something Missing? Some Observations Prompted by the Cognitive-Neoassociationist View of Anger and Emotional Aggression.- II. Peers, Sex Roles, and Aggression.- 4 Peer Adaptations in the Development of Antisocial Behavior: A Confluence Model.- 5 Bullying at School: Long-Term Outcomes for the Victims and an Effective School-Based Intervention Program.- 6 Indirect Aggression in Boys and Girls.- III. Environmental Instigation and Mitigation of Aggression.- 7 Long-Term Effects of Repeated Exposure to Media Violence in Childhood.- 8 Risk and Resource Variables in Children's Aggressive Behavior: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study.- IV. Development of Adult Aggression.- 9 Childhood, Adolescent, and Adult Features of Violent Males.- 10 Aggression in Two Generations.- V. Group Aggression in Adolescents and Adults.- 11 Delinquent Gangs.- 12 Nationalism, Patriotism, and Aggression: A Clarification of Functional Differences.

Product details

• Assisted by: L. Rowell Huesmann (Editor), L.Rowell Huesmann (Editor), Rowell Huesmann (Editor), L Rowell Huesmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2013
• EAN: 9781475791181
• ISBN: 978-1-4757-9118-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 17 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 477 g
• Illustrations: XX, 306 p.
• Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology; The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology; The Springer Series in Social/Clinical Psychology
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology