Accounting for Aggression - Perspectives on Aggression and Violence

First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive synthesis and assessment of popular writings and other contemporary theory and research on aggression and violence. The author presents a variety of accounts of aggression, drawing on original work in the areas of biology, sociobiology, ethology, psychology and sociology.

List of contents

Thanks and Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Issues of Definition 2. Biological Approaches to Aggression and Violence 3. Ethological and Sociobiological Approaches to Aggression 4. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Aggression and Violence 5. Laboratory and Experimental Approaches to Aggression and Violence 6. Social Accounts of Aggression and Violence 7. Towards a Synthesis. References. Index.

Summary

First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive synthesis and assessment of popular writings and other contemporary theory and research on aggression and violence. The author presents a variety of accounts of aggression, drawing on original work in the areas of biology, sociobiology, ethology, psychology and sociology.

Product details

• Authors: Gerda Siann, Siann Gerda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032798554
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279855-4
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Psychology Library Editions: Aggression
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Psychotherapy, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology