Our Work The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation examines enduring and urgent problems of violence, such as war, crime, and human aggression. Through basic and applied research, we aim to understand the causes,…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …Drug Wars: How Human Rights Campaigns Shape Prosocial Behavior and Criminal Justice Preferences 2022 Christine Chalifoux (Anthropology, University of Michigan), Betrayal and Belonging: Kinship, Ethnicity, and Cosmopolitanism in Kampala Alex…
Competitive and Cooperative Behaviors among Forest Elephants in the Presence of a Limited Resource …below the range of human hearing. Most of the relationships revealed support the hypothesis that elephants use aggression to establish and/or maintain their place in a dominance hierarchy which can…
Molecular Genetics of Aggressive Behavior in Drosophila Melanogaster …vertebrates and insects may share many of the genetic elements for aggression, our findings with the fruit fly model shall be of fundamental interest to those working on human aggression….
Remembering Violence and the Transvaluation of the Public Sphere …the liberal-rationalist reductions of the TRC concerning politically motivated and thus indemnifiable human rights violations. Nor do I completely reject the norm of human rights promoted by the truth commission,…
Stress Reactivity to Provocation and Aggression in Early Adulthood: Do Early Victimization and Regulation Processes Matter? There is a relative consensus about the detrimental impact of childhood maltreatment on mental health and behavioral problems later in life, including aggression behavior. Prior research suggests that this association…
Postcolonial Aspirations and Intimacies of Violence Among Gebusi of the Nomad Area, Papua New GuineaandThe Role of Culture in the Early Evolution of Human Violence …on the rate of human violence. This finding lends credence to the notion that human violence is a solvable problem and is not an intrinsic or preordained feature of humanity….
HFG Welcomes its 2025 Emerging Scholars …knowledge on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. For more information contact: Nyeleti Honwana, Program Officer info@hfg.org | 646.428.0971…
Blackfoot Traditional Models of Aggression and Healing …ago, anthropologist Jean Briggs explored the paradox of an externally very violent society that is internally peaceful. Briggs focused on child-rearing practices that emphasized respect for the human body, as…
Endocrine Disruption of Aggression: What We Can Learn About Humans by Studying Fish …we can study the effects of EDCs on aggression in relatively simple animals such as fish. This study focused on EDCs called phytoestrogens, which are plant compounds that are structurally…
