Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …and genocide, where the costs of human aggression are highest. Impulsive Aggression Is Different from Instrumental Aggression Psychologists understand aggression to be behavior aimed at harming another member of the…
Alcohol: The Aggression Elixir? …indicating that alcohol consumption is strongly linked to verbal aggression, aggressive threats, family violence, marital aggression, violence-related emergency-room visits, child abuse, firearm use, sexual aggression, homicide, and suicide. A well-designed…
Mechanisms Underlying “Pathological” Forms of Aggression in Rats …received comparatively little attention, despite the fact that disparate human studies suggest an involvement of glucocorticoid deficiency in abnormal human aggression. We have recently reported that experimentally induced glucocorticoid insufficiency…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Combat, Moral Injury, and the War on Terror David Anderson (Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology). The Neural Circuitry of Aggression, Sex, and Sexual Aggression Sarah Cameron (History,…
Neuropharmacology of Female Aggression …female aggression. To the contrary, most models of aggression in both animals and humans focus on a context in which males are aggressive, but females are not. This has lead…
Serotonin and Impulsive Aggression: Not So Fast …aggression but the normal neurobiology of aggression as well. This discovery also provides a basis for intelligent conjecture about the selective forces governing the evolution of both serotonin and aggression…
The Association of Polymorphisms in Genes affecting Monoamine Neurotransmission with Aggressive Behavior in Schizophrenic Violent Individuals …in human aggression. Our team has identified a common functional polymorphism at COMT codon 158. The COMT enzyme inactivates catecholamines by catalyzing S-adenosyl-L-methionine dependent methyl conjugation. This polymorphism results in…
The Relationship Between Theory of Mind, Social Information Processing, and Aggression in Preschool Children …aggression, some engaged in physical aggression only, some engaged in relational aggression only and some engaged in both types of aggression. These percentages were different for boys and girls, with…
Aggression and Morality: Links in Early Childhood …the factors that contribute to the development of aggressive tendencies early in life. Although aggression involves intentional harm to others, surprisingly little research has examined whether deficits in children’s moral…
The Neural Circuitry of Aggression, Sex and Sexual Aggression Mating and aggression are innate (or instinctive) behaviors that are performed without training. Interestingly, among animals, these two seemingly different behaviors appear to be inextricably intertwined: aggressive encounters are often…
