All Articles Tagged As: aggression

Two-faced testosterone can make you nasty or nice (3/9/2010)

Is aggression always the best response to a challenge? Testosterone may not necessarily cause aggression but behavior can drive testosterone secretion. In an evaluation for Faculty of 1000, Robert Sapolsky highlights a study published in Nature which assessed how testosterone affects human behavior in a 'pro-social' situation -- an environment where it is beneficial for a person to help someone else. ...> Full Article

Teenagers use violence to boost their social standing (12/28/2009)

A new study looks in depth at the social relationships between male and female teenagers, relational violence and psycho-social adjustment factors such as loneliness, self-esteem and satisfaction with life. The results show that young people who want to be better appreciated and respected within their group are the most likely to be violent. ...> Full Article

Testosterone does not induce aggression (12/14/2009)

New scientific evidence refutes the preconception that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects has shown that the sexual hormone with the poor reputation can encourage fair behaviors if this serves to ensure one's own status. ...> Full Article

Adolescents think school bullying 'will keep on happening' and resign themselves to it (11/2/2009)

A research work conducted at the University of Granada reveals that schoolchildren see the victims as "passive persons and socially incompetent," and the abusers as "strong, brave and extrovert individuals." To carry out this work, the authors conducted a survey on 1,237 children aged between 11 and 16 years old from Granada and Braga, who completed a questionnaire in order to get to know their perception about "bullying." ...> Full Article

Angry faces: Research suggests link between facial structure and aggression (11/2/2009)

Angry words and gestures are not the only way to get a sense of how temperamental a person is. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, a quick glance at someone's facial structure may be enough for us to predict their tendency towards aggression. ...> Full Article

Bosses who feel inadequate are more likely to bully (10/18/2009)

Bosses who feel incompetent are more likely to bully their employees, according to new research from UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California. But flattery, the study warns, may not be the best way to soothe the savage boss ...> Full Article

Eating sweets every day in childhood 'increases adult aggression' (10/5/2009)

Children who eat sweets and chocolates every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to a Cardiff University study. Researchers found a higher percentage of adults who were violent at age 34 had eaten sweets every day, compared to those who were non-violent. This link persisted after controlling for other factors. ...> Full Article

Are the monoamines involved in shaping conduct disorders? (9/17/2009)

Apart from psychosocial influences, biological factors have a major influence on personality traits and behavior. The aggregation of certain risk factors in the same individual has been shown to contribute to the development of antisocial behavior. Based on gene-environment interactions, the brain monoamine systems play a crucial role in shaping personality traits and conduct disorder. The MAO genes appear to be the first genes strongly linked with either antisocial behavior or conduct disorder. ...> Full Article

People left out in the cold may act heatedly toward others (1/28/2009)

New research helps explain link between social rejection and aggressive behavior ...> Full Article

Researcher finds link between aggression, status and sex (12/12/2008)

Have you ever wondered why it seems like the littlest things make people angry? Why a glance at the wrong person or a spilled glass of water can lead to a fist fight or worse? University of Minnesota researcher Vladas Griskevicius has three words to explain why people may be evolutionarily inclined to make a mountain out of molehill: aggression, status and sex. ...> Full Article

Move over mean girls - boys can be socially aggressive, too (9/21/2008)

Now a new analysis of almost 150 studies of aggression in children and adolescents has found that while it's true that boys are more likely to engage in physical aggression, girls and boys alike take part in social aggression. ...> Full Article

Aggressive preschoolers found to have fewer friends than others (7/24/2008)

Preschoolers who are aggressive, angry, and inattentive tend to have fewer playmates than their non-aggressive classmates, whether they are boys or girls. ...> Full Article

High-school girls who consider themselves attractive are more likely to be targets for bullying (5/26/2008)

It turns out your mother was right: they are just jealous. ...> Full Article

High self-esteem is not always what it's cracked up to be, especially when it comes to being insecure and defensive (4/30/2008)

High self-esteem is not the same thing as healthy self-esteem ...> Full Article

Antisocial conduct and decision making about aggressive behavior influence each other in teens (3/27/2008)

A new study challenges the idea that antisocial behavior is relatively unchangeable during the teenage years ...> Full Article

Video games activate reward regions of brain in men more than women (2/5/2008)

Allan Reiss, MD, and his colleagues have a pretty good idea why your husband or boyfriend can't put down the Halo 3. In a first-of-its-kind imaging study, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown that the part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more activated in men than women during video-game play. ...> Full Article

Sports machismo may be cue to male teen violence (1/26/2008)

The sports culture surrounding football and wrestling may be fueling aggressive and violent behavior not only among teen male players but also among their male friends and peers on and off the field, according to a Penn State study. ...> Full Article

Aggression as rewarding as sex, food and drugs (1/15/2008)

New research from Vanderbilt University shows for the first time that the brain processes aggression as a reward - much like sex, food and drugs - offering insights into our propensity to fight and our fascination with violent sports like boxing and football. ...> Full Article

Bullies target teenagers unable to express emotion (1/6/2008)

Youngsters with specific language impairment (SLI) are unable to verbally express their feelings and find it difficult to understand what others are saying due to a developmental problem with their language. However they show no physical signs of the disorder, have otherwise normal intellectual ability and do enjoy socialising, so often appear to other people as just 'unusual'. This can lead to them being ostracised or even attacked by their peers. ...> Full Article

Public Policy Fails to Address the Effects of Media Violence on Children (12/30/2007)

Highly publicized events such as school shootings arouse public interest in the effects of media violence exposure on children, yet there is still considerable public debate about whether to take this issue seriously. A recent article in Social Issues and Policy Review summarizes the research on the effects of media violence and convincingly demonstrates the profound influence that media violence is having in our society. ...> Full Article

Scientists Identify Brain Abnormalities Underlying Key Element of Borderline Personality Disorder (12/26/2007)

Using new approaches, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City has gained a view of activity in key brain areas associated with a core difficulty in patients with borderline personality disorder-shedding new light on this serious psychiatric condition. ...> Full Article

Humor Develops From Aggression Caused By Male Hormones, Professor Says (12/25/2007)

Humor appears to develop from aggression caused by male hormones, according to a study published in the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal. ...> Full Article

Money motivates - especially when your colleague gets less (12/15/2007)

Brain scanning experiment shows how much we take others' earnings as a measure of our success ...> Full Article

Research Finds Voters' Bodies Recoil at Negative Political Advertising; Brain Remembers Negative Messages (12/14/2007)

As the great race begins, professor discusses physiological impact of negative campaign advertising. ...> Full Article

This Is Your Brain on Violent Media (12/8/2007)

Behavior Control Center in Brain Less Responsive After Repeated Exposure to Violence May Lead to Aggressive Behavior ...> Full Article