Human Aggression

This revised edition includes new chapters on the development of aggression, biological bases of aggressive behavior, and aggression in natural settings; and extensive updates of the theory and research covered in the first edition.

List of contents

Aggression: Definition and Perspectives.- Methods for the Systematic Study of Aggression.- Development of Aggression.- Social Determinants of Aggression. External Determinants of Human Aggression.- Individual Determinants of Aggression.- Biological Bases of Human Aggressive Behavior.- Aggression in Natural Settings.- The Prevention and Control of Human Aggression.- Index.

Summary

This revised edition includes new chapters on the development of aggression, biological bases of aggressive behavior, and aggression in natural settings; and extensive updates of the theory and research covered in the first edition.

Report

From a review of the first edition
"An excellent book on human aggression....It is comprehensive and provides a useful and up-to-date summary of recent lines of research, yet it is easily read and understood by advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students."
(AAAS Science Books and Films)

Product details

• Authors: Robert Baron, Robert A Baron, Robert A. Baron, Deborah R Richardson, Deborah R. Richardson
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780306444586
• ISBN: 978-0-306-44458-6
• No. of pages: 420
• Weight: 796 g
• Illustrations: XX, 420 p.
• Series: Perspectives in Social Psychology; Perspectives in Social Psychology
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology