Aggression and violence represent a significant public health concern and a clinical
challenge for the mental healthcare provider. A great deal has been revealed regarding the …

Accessible summary• Aggressive behavior is the observable manifestation of aggression
and is associated with transitions across different developmental periods as well as a variety …

Aversive emotional reactions to real or imagined social harms infuse moral judgment and
motivate prosocial behavior. Here, we show that the neurotransmitter serotonin directly …

Personality, 10th ed. Page 1 Jerry M. Burger Santa Clara University Personality Tenth
Edition Australia • Brazil • Mexico • Singapore • United Kingdom • United States …

—Martin Luther King Jr.(1929–1968) There is little doubt that aggression was an adaptive
behavior for many of our ancient ancestors who lived in small groups. Males used …

Psychological research on behavior has waned in recent decades. One underappreciated
reason for this trend is that the field lacks a general-purpose framework targeted to the study …

Introduction Scholars have established subcategories of aggressive behavior in order to
better understand this construct. Specifically, a classification based on motivational …

The inverse relation between serotonin and human aggression is often portrayed as
“reliable,”“strong,” and “well established” despite decades of conflicting reports and widely …

Highlights•Aggression results from three processes: instigation, impellance, and
inhibition.•Instigation and impellance increase the likelihood and intensity of …

Aggression is a behavior with evolutionary origins, but is often both destructive and
maladaptive in today's society. Research over the past several decades has confirmed the …