The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Peacemaking in the Ossetian-Ingush Conflict Zone Randall R. Sakai (Biology, University of Pennsylvania). Neuroendocrine Consequences of Dominance and Subordination Neal G. Simon (Biology, Lehigh University). The Neurosteroid DHEA: A Potential…
Serotonin and Impulsive Aggression: Not So Fast This article appeared in The Biology of Aggression, the Spring 1999 edition of The HFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. The…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …the Biology of Aggression Vasile B. Cernat (Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University). Ethnic Stereotypes and Attitudes: The Role of Social Knowledge Alexander B. Downes (Political Science, University of Chicago). Targeting Civilians in…
Endocrine Disruption of Aggression: What We Can Learn About Humans by Studying Fish Hundreds of chemicals are known to interfere with the vertebrate endocrine system. These endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) differ from more traditional toxins in that they have myriad sublethal behavioral and…
Neuropharmacology of Female Aggression …the focus on biological processes controlling aggression. Again, this has typically been a biology of male aggression. For example, we found that a member of a group of drugs called…
Alcohol: The Aggression Elixir? This article appeared in The Biology of Aggression, the Spring 1999 edition of The HFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. There…
“It’s Time to Be Very Afraid”: A Conversation with Peter Coleman …change. These are [what Popper called] “cloud problems.” Addiction is a cloud problem because addiction to drugs is a biopsychosocial-structural problem. It’s in our biology, it’s in our neurology, it’s…
Mechanisms Underlying “Pathological” Forms of Aggression in Rats The involvement of the overproduction of stress hormones (glucocorticoids) in the etiology of mood disorders (e.g., anxiety and depression) is well established. In contrast, the psychopathological consequences of glucocorticoid underproduction…
Determinants of Infant Abuse and Neglect In Group-Living Macaques Infant abuse and neglect is not a phenomenon unique to the human species. In monkeys and apes, some mothers occasionally display violent behavior towards their infants and a few others…
Neuroendocrine Consequences of Dominance and Subordination The visible burrow system (VBS) provides a unique model for studying complex behaviors in rat social groups in a seminaturalistic environment. In this setting, dominance is associated with the expression…
