Aggression: Biological, Developmental, and Social Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Pierre Karli (auth.), Seymour Feshbach, Jolanta Zagrodzka (eds.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Series: The Plenum Series in Social/Clinical Psychology
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this volume leading international authorities present the results of their original scientific studies of aggressive behavior. Written in honor of the eminent Polish psychologist, Adam Fraczec, for this work in this area, the contributed chapters highlight the similarities and differences in the findings provided by investigators working in diverse cultural settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Conceptual and Ethical Problems Raised by the Study of Brain-Behavior Relationships Underlying Aggression....Pages 3-14
Is Predatory Behavior a Model of Complex Forms of Human Aggression?....Pages 15-27
The Role of Substance P Receptors in Amygdaloid Modulation of Aggressive Behavior in the Cat....Pages 29-50
Alcohol’s Effects on Physiology and “Aggression”: What is the Nature of the Link?....Pages 51-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Learning Aggression from Models: From a Social Learning Toward a Cognitive Theory of Modeling....Pages 69-81
Attitudes Toward Violence and the Direction of the Development of a Child’s Aggression....Pages 83-109
Emotional Instability, Physical and Verbal Aggression, and Prosocial Behavior as Precursors of Scholastic Achievement and Social Adjustment....Pages 111-120
A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship between Aggressive and Depressive Tendencies in Elementary School Age Boys and Girls....Pages 121-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Poverty and Violence....Pages 139-154
Can Outfit be Aggressive? Values and Images of Punks....Pages 155-175
Is War a Consequence of Human Aggression?....Pages 177-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
On the Determinants and Regulation of Impulsive Aggression....Pages 187-211
The Psychology of Aggression: Insights and Issues....Pages 213-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-241

✦ Subjects

Personality and Social Psychology

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