Emotions and Aggressive Behavior

G. Steffgen

• 02 augustus 2007
• 9780889373433

Samenvatting:

Perhaps due to applications in criminology and other hot topics, researchers have made the relationship between the affective-emotional processes and aggressive behavior a central topic. They have found that emotions can serve a variety of purposes in the progression, as triggers, amplifiers, moderators or even ultimate goals of aggressive behavior. Here social, developmental, and physiological psychologists present their research about what leads to what and why and include the latest on assessment, treatment, and theory. Topics of these 13 papers include the historiography of German and Anglo-American research, emotion-based aggression behaviors, the functional neuroanatomy of anger and aggression, the relationship between anger treatment and aggressive behavior, vengeful responses to experienced injustice, inter-group aggression (theory and first data), emotions in negative inter-group relations, crossroads of emotion and aggression in early adolescence, and childhood aggression in terms of moral emotions, prevention and the role of emotional-social disorders. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)