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Human Aggression
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▪ Abstract Research on human aggression has progressed to a point at which a unifying framework is needed. Major domain-limited theories of aggression include cognitive neoassociation, social learning, social interaction, script, and excitation transfer theories. Using the general aggression model (GAM), this review posits cognition, affect, and arousal to mediate the effects of situational and personological variables on aggression. The review also organizes recent theories of the development and persistence of aggressive personality. Personality is conceptualized as a set of stable knowledge structures that individuals use to interpret events in their social world and to guide their behavior. In addition to organizing what is already known about human aggression, this review, using the GAM framework, also serves the heuristic function of suggesting what research is needed to fill in theoretical gaps and can be used to create and test interventions for reducing aggression.
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“The authors explain this using the General Aggression Model (Anderson & Bushman, 2002), which posits that those with child maltreatment experience normalize the utility of violence and “form aggressive scripts” that they use to deal with stressors and frustrations in their intimate relationships, thereby resulting in the perpetration of IPV.”
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- Authors
- Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J.
- Affiliations
- Iowa State University (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2002-02
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 27-51
- ISSN
- 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2085
- OpenAlex
- W4212813690
- Cited by
- 3,915
- References
- 98
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- human aggression, General Aggression Model, social learning theory, social interaction theory, script theory, aggressive personality, personality development, cognition, affect, arousal, situational variables
- MeSH terms
- Affect, Aggression, Arousal, Cognition, Interpersonal Relations, Learning, Motivation, Psychological Theory
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