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 • Notes
Part I: Emotional Aggression
What is Emotional Aggression? • Notes
2. Effects of Frustrations
The 1939 Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis • Revision the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis • Summary • Notes
3. 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 • Notes
4. 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 • Notes
Part II: Aggressive Personalities
5. The Identification of the Violence Prone
Are Some People consistently Disposed to be Aggressive? • How Aggressive Personalities Operate • Summary • Notes
6. 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 • Notes
Part III: Violence in Society
7. 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 • Notes
8. Domestic Violence
Explaining Domestic Violence • Summary • Notes
9. Murder
An Introduction to Murder • Conditions That Influence Murders • The Violent Interaction • Summary • Notes
Part IV: Controlling Aggression
10. Punishment and Societal Controls
Using Punishment to Deter Violence • Would Gun Control Lessen Violent Crimes? • Summary • Notes
11. Psychological Procedures for Controlling Aggression
Catharsis: Reducing One's Violent Urges by Aggressing • Developing New Ways of Behaving • Summary • Notes
Part V: Some Special Questions
12. 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 • Notes
13. Aggression in the Laboratory
The Typical Laboratory Procedure • Some Considerations in Support of Laboratory Experiments • Summary • Notes
14. In Conclusion: Some Lessons to be Drawn
Different Kinds of Aggression: Instrumental and Emotional • Is Violence Inevitable? • The Determinants as Risk Factors • Controlling Violence
Bibliography
Index