Although aggressive behavior and its consequences has been a topic
of concern for centuries, it is only within the recent past that
serious attempts to understand aggression have been made. Within
the last decade concern has expanded at a very high rate, perhaps
impelled by an increase in aggression or the implication of an
increase by frequent media reports of aggressive behavior. This
apparent increased concern is matched by an increase in research.
This volume brings together for the first time the diverse
research strategies that reflect current major approaches to
understanding the psychology of aggression. It deals with both
basic laboratory research and the implications of such research for
clinical work. Each chapter is designed to provide a databased
analysis of aggressive behavior and an explanation of the research
tactics used to obtain such data.
Included in the book are a review of physiological variables in
aggression; an assessment of neonatal variables in a developmental
analysis of aggression; an examination of genetics and aggression;
research on the Pain-Aggression hypothesis in human and non-human
subjects; and an exposition of a social learning model of
aggression. Theses analyses are significantly amplified by a
moment-by-moment sequential analysis of the behavior of aggressive
children, and by an examination of the role of semantic
conditioning in the ontogeny of human aggressive repertoires. The
final chapter (written by the editor) examines recurring problems
in aggression research in general and considers points of consensus
among the contributors to the volume.
"Control of Aggression" will interest clinical psychologists and
the full spectrum of other scientists engaged in research on the
subject, including behavioral pharmacologists and biologists,
geneticists, physiological and social psychologists, and
sociologists.
"John F. Knutson" is currently professor of psychology at the
University of Iowa. He is the associate editor of the journal
"Aggressive Behavior." He is a fellow of the American Psychological
Association, the International Society for Research on Aggression,
the American Psychological Society, and the Association for the
Advancement of Applied and Preventive Psychology. He is author,
co-author, editor, or co-editor of over fifty books.
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