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Human Aggression [electronic resource] / by Robert A. Baron.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Perspectives in Social PsychologyPublisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1977Edition: 1st ed. 1977Description: XVII, 298 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461571957
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.091 23
LOC classification:
  • GN550-674
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Aggression: Definitions and Perspectives -- 2. Aggression: Methods for Systematic Study -- 3. Social Determinants of Aggression -- 4. Environmental and Situational Determinants of Aggression -- 5. Individual Determinants of Aggression: Personality, Attitudes, and Genes -- 6. The Prevention and Control of Human Aggression -- References -- Author Index.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: also many newer lines of research, to which I will return below, are represented in various chapters. And finally, I have included a sepa­ rate unit on methods for the study of aggression-a feature that I believe to be unique to the present volume. In these ways, I have at­ tempted to produce a text that is as broad and eclectic in coverage as I could make it. While the present volume grew, in part, out of my desire to pro­ duce what I thought might prove to be a useful teaching aid, it also developed out of a second major motive. During the past few years, a large number of new-and to me, exciting-lines of investigation have emerged in rapid order. These have been extremely varied in scope, including, among many others, such diverse topics as the effects of sexual arousal upon aggression, the impact of environmental factors (e. g. , heat, noise, crowding) upon such behavior, interracial aggres­ sion, and the influence of heightened self-awareness. Despite the fact that such topics have already generated a considerable amount of re­ search, they were not, to my knowledge, adequately represented irt any existing volume. Given this state of affairs, it seemed to me that a reasonably comprehensive summary of this newer work might prove both useful and timely.
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1. Aggression: Definitions and Perspectives -- 2. Aggression: Methods for Systematic Study -- 3. Social Determinants of Aggression -- 4. Environmental and Situational Determinants of Aggression -- 5. Individual Determinants of Aggression: Personality, Attitudes, and Genes -- 6. The Prevention and Control of Human Aggression -- References -- Author Index.

also many newer lines of research, to which I will return below, are represented in various chapters. And finally, I have included a sepa­ rate unit on methods for the study of aggression-a feature that I believe to be unique to the present volume. In these ways, I have at­ tempted to produce a text that is as broad and eclectic in coverage as I could make it. While the present volume grew, in part, out of my desire to pro­ duce what I thought might prove to be a useful teaching aid, it also developed out of a second major motive. During the past few years, a large number of new-and to me, exciting-lines of investigation have emerged in rapid order. These have been extremely varied in scope, including, among many others, such diverse topics as the effects of sexual arousal upon aggression, the impact of environmental factors (e. g. , heat, noise, crowding) upon such behavior, interracial aggres­ sion, and the influence of heightened self-awareness. Despite the fact that such topics have already generated a considerable amount of re­ search, they were not, to my knowledge, adequately represented irt any existing volume. Given this state of affairs, it seemed to me that a reasonably comprehensive summary of this newer work might prove both useful and timely.

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