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 200 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 booksHuman Helplessness: A Coping Perspective; Dynamics of Romantic Love: Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex; and Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Changeand over 280 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 BerscheidHatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research.

Contributors Preface Introduction Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer I. Major Theoretical Perspectives The General Aggression Model C. Nathan DeWall and Craig A. Anderson I3 Theory: Instigating, Impelling, and Inhibiting Factors in Aggression Erica B. Slotter and Eli J. Finkel Applying Adaptationism to Human Anger: The Recalibrational Theory Aaron Sell A Behavioral Systems Perspective on Power and Aggression Phillip R. Shaver, Michal Segev, and Mario Mikulincer Dispositional Influences on Human Aggression Jennifer L. Tackett and Robert F. Krueger A Social Neuroscience Perspective on the Neurobiological Bases of Aggression Thomas F. Denson II. Genetic and Environmental Determinants The Transmission of Aggressiveness Across Generations: Biological, Contextual, and Social Learning Processes L. Rowell Huesmann, Eric F. Dubow, and Paul Boxer Genetic and Environmental Influences on Aggression Soo Hyun Rhee and Irwin D. Waldman Social Information Processing Patterns as Mediators of the Interaction Between Genetic Factors and Life Experiences in the Development of Aggressive Behavior Kenneth A. Dodge Violence and Character: A CuPS (Culture Person Situation) Perspective Dov Cohen and Angela K.-y. Leung III. Psychological and Relational Processes Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who's the Most Aggressive of Them All? Narcissism, Self-Esteem, and Aggression Sander Thomaes and Brad J. Bushman Evolved Mechanisms for Revenge and Forgiveness Michael McCullough, Robert Kurzban, and Benjamin A. Tabak Attachment, Anger, and Aggression Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver Attachment and Violence: An Anger Born of Fear Donald G. Dutton Respecting Others and Being Respected Can Reduce Aggression in ParentChild Relations and in Schools Ofra Mayseless and Miri Scharf IV. Aggression at the Societal Level An Existential Perspective on Violent Solutions to EthnoPolitical Conflict Gilad Hirschberger and Tom Pyszczynski The Emotional Roots of Intergroup Aggression: The Distinct Role of Anger and Hatred Eran Halperin Tension and Harmony in Intergroup Relations Tamar Saguy, Nicole Tausch, John F. Dovidio, Felicia Pratto, and Purnima Singh V. Consequences of Aggression: The Victim Perspective Influence of Violence and Aggression on Children's Psychological Development: Trauma, Attachment, and Memory Sheree L. Toth, LaTonya S. Harris, Gail S. Goodman, and Dante Cicchetti The Paradox of Partner Aggression: Being Committed to an Aggressive Partner Ximena B. Arriaga and Nicole M. Capezza The Psychological Toll of Exposure to Political Violence: The Israeli Experience Zahava Solomon and Karni Ginzburg Index About the Editors