Aggression

Leonard Berkowitz is Vilas Research Professor in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The internationally known recipient of a distinguised scientist award by the American Psychological Association, he is the author of several books and more than 170 articles.

• Foreword Preface 1. The Problem of Aggression What is Aggression? • Some Words about Anger, Hostility, and Aggressiveness • Summary • NotesPart I: Emotional Aggression What is Emotional Aggression? • Notes2. Effects of Frustrations The 1939 Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis • Revision the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis • Summary • Notes3. We're Nasty When We Feel Bad Negative Affect as the Root of Emotional Aggression • Negative Affect, Aggressive Inclinations, and Anger • Pulling Out Implusive Aggression: The Role of Aggressive Cues • Summary • Notes4. Does Thinking Make It So? Cognitions and Emotion • Theories of Emotion • Cognitions Don't Always "Make It So": Evidence of Noncognitive Influences upon Emotion • Thoughts Do Matter • Summary • NotesPart II: Aggressive Personalities5. The Identification of the Violence Prone Are Some People consistently Disposed to be Aggressive? • How Aggressive Personalities Operate • Summary • Notes6. The Development of Violence Proneness Familial and Peer Influences on the Development of Aggressiveness • Childhood Experiences • Direct Influences on the Development of Aggressiveness • Indirect Influences • Summary • NotesPart III: Violence in Society7. Violence in the Media Entertaining, Informative, Instructive...and Dangerous? • Violence on the Screen and Printed Page: Immediate Effects • The Prolonged Influence of Repeated Exposure to Media Violence • Summary • Notes8. Domestic Violence Explaining Domestic Violence • Summary • Notes9. Murder An Introduction to Murder • Conditions That Influence Murders • The Violent Interaction • Summary • NotesPart IV: Controlling Aggression10. Punishment and Societal Controls Using Punishment to Deter Violence • Would Gun Control Lessen Violent Crimes? • Summary • Notes11. Psychological Procedures for Controlling Aggression Catharsis: Reducing One's Violent Urges by Aggressing • Developing New Ways of Behaving • Summary • NotesPart V: Some Special Questions12. Biology and Aggression A "Lust for Hatred and Destruction"? • Are People Instinctively Driven to Violence? • Critique of the Traditional Instinct Conception • Heredity Hormones • Alcohol and Aggression • Summary • Notes13. Aggression in the Laboratory The Typical Laboratory Procedure • Some Considerations in Support of Laboratory Experiments • Summary • Notes14. In Conclusion: Some Lessons to be Drawn Different Kinds of Aggression: Instrumental and Emotional • Is Violence Inevitable? • The Determinants as Risk Factors • Controlling ViolenceBibliography Index