Human Aggression and Violence: Causes, Manifestations, and Consequences

✍ Scribed by Phillip R. Shaver (editor), Mario Mikulincer (editor)

Publisher: American Psychological Association
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 439
Series: Herzliya Series on Personality and Social Psychology
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this comprehensive book, editors Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer have assembled chapters from international experts to provide a broad-based and multidisciplinary analysis of aggression and violence, their negative consequences, and promising interventions.

Five sections examine major theoretical perspectives, genetic and environmental determinants, and the psychological and relational processes underlying human violence and aggression. In its assessment of aggression and violence across individual, relational and societal levels, this book will engage a broad audience.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part I
Major Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 1
The General Aggression Model
Chapter 2
I3 Theory: Instigating, Impelling, and Inhibiting Factors in Aggression
Chapter 3
Applying Adaptationism to Human Anger: The Recalibrational Theory
Chapter 4
A Behavioral Systems Perspective on Power and Aggression
Chapter 5
Dispositional Influences on Human Aggression
Chapter 6
A Social Neuroscience Perspective on the Neurobiological Bases of Aggression
Part II
Genetic and Environmental Determinants
Chapter 7 The Transmission of Aggressiveness Across Generations: Biological, Contextual, and Social Learning Processes
Chapter 8
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Aggression
Chapter 9 Social Information Processing Patterns as Mediators of the Interaction Between Genetic Factors and Life Experiences in the Development of Aggressive Behavior
Chapter 10 Violence and Character: A CuPS (Culture × Person × Situation) Perspective
Part III
Psychological and Relational Processes
Chapter 11 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who’s the Most Aggressive of Them All? Narcissism, Self-Esteem, and Aggression
Chapter 12
Evolved Mechanisms for Revenge and Forgiveness
Chapter 13
Attachment, Anger, and Aggression
Chapter 14 Attachment and Violence: An Anger Born of Fear
Chapter 15 Respecting Others and Being Respected Can Reduce Aggression in Parent–Child Relations and in Schools
Part IV
Aggression at the Societal Level
Chapter 16 An Existential Perspective on Violent Solutions to Ethno–Political Conflict
Chapter 17 The Emotional Roots of Intergroup Aggression: The Distinct Roles of Anger and Hatred
Chapter 18
Tension and Harmony in Intergroup Relations
Part V Consequences of Aggression: The Victim Perspective
Chapter 19 Influence of Violence and Aggression on Children’s Psychological Development: Trauma, Attachment, and Memory
Chapter 20
The Paradox of Partner Aggression: Being Committed to an Aggressive Partner
Chapter 21
The Psychological Toll of Exposure to Political Violence: the Israeli Experience
Index
About the Editors

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