Human Aggression and Violence

Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, a social and personality psychologist, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Before moving there, he served on the faculties of Columbia University, New York University, University of Denver, and State University of New York at Buffalo.  He has coauthored and coedited numerous books, including In Search of Intimacy Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes Measures of Political Attitudes Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications, and Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change, and has published over 2 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.  Dr. Shaver's research focuses on attachment, human motivation and emotion, close relationships, personality development, and the effects of meditation on behavior and the brain.  He is a member of the editorial boards of Attachment and Human Development, Personal Relationships, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Emotion, and has served on grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.  He has been executive officer of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and is a fellow of both APA and the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Shaver received a Distinguished Career Award from the International Association for Relationship Research and has served as president of that organization.  Mario Mikulincer, PhD, is professor of psychology and dean of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He has published three books-Human Helplessness: A Coping Perspective Dynamics of Romantic Love: Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex and Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change-and over 28 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.  Dr. Mikulincer's main research interests are attachment theory, terror management theory, personality processes in interpersonal relationships, coping with stress and trauma, grief-related processes, and prosocial motives and behavior.  He is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Inquiry, and Personality and Social Psychology Review, and has served as associate editor of two journals, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personal Relationships. Recently, he was elected to serve as chief editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.  He is a fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Association for Psychological Sciences. He received the EMET Prize in Social Science for his contributions to psychology and the Berscheid amp ndash Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research.

• ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction -Phillip R. Shaver and Mario MikulincerI. Major Theoretical PerspectivesThe General Aggression Model -C. Nathan DeWall and Craig A. AndersonI3 Theory: Instigating, Impelling, and Inhibiting Factors in Aggression -Erica B. Slotter and Eli J. FinkelApplying Adaptationism to Human Anger: The Recalibrational Theory -Aaron SellA Behavioral Systems Perspective on Power and Aggression -Phillip R. Shaver, Michal Segev, and Mario MikulincerDispositional Influences on Human Aggression -Jennifer L. Tackett and Robert F. KruegerA Social Neuroscience Perspective on the Neurobiological Bases of Aggression -Thomas F. DensonII. Genetic and Environmental DeterminantsThe Transmission of Aggressiveness Across Generations: Biological, Contextual, and Social Learning Processes -L. Rowell Huesmann, Eric F. Dubow, and Paul BoxerGenetic and Environmental Influences on Aggression -Soo Hyun Rhee and Irwin D. WaldmanSocial Information Processing Patterns as Mediators of the Interaction Between Genetic Factors and Life Experiences in the Development of Aggressive Behavior -Kenneth A. DodgeViolence and Character: A CuPS (Culture amp times Person amp times Situation) Perspective -Dov Cohen and Angela K.-y. LeungIII. Psychological and Relational ProcessesMirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who's the Most Aggressive of Them All? Narcissism, Self-Esteem, and Aggression -Sander Thomaes and Brad J. BushmanEvolved Mechanisms for Revenge and Forgiveness -Michael McCullough, Robert Kurzban, and Benjamin A. TabakAttachment, Anger, and Aggression -Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. ShaverAttachment and Violence: An Anger Born of Fear -Donald G. DuttonRespecting Others and Being Respected Can Reduce Aggression in Parent amp ndash Child Relations and in Schools -Ofra Mayseless and Miri ScharfIV. Aggression at the Societal LevelAn Existential Perspective on Violent Solutions to Ethno amp ndash Political Conflict -Gilad Hirschberger and Tom PyszczynskiThe Emotional Roots of Intergroup Aggression: The Distinct Role of Anger and Hatred -Eran HalperinTension and Harmony in Intergroup Relations -Tamar Saguy, Nicole Tausch, John F. Dovidio, Felicia Pratto, and Purnima SinghV. Consequences of Aggression: The Victim PerspectiveInfluence of Violence and Aggression on Children's Psychological Development: Trauma, Attachment, and Memory -Sheree L. Toth, LaTonya S. Harris, Gail S. Goodman, and Dante CicchettiThe Paradox of Partner Aggression: Being Committed to an Aggressive Partner -Ximena B. Arriaga and Nicole M. CapezzaThe Psychological Toll of Exposure to Political Violence: The Israeli Experience -Zahava Solomon and Karni GinzburgIndexAbout the Editors