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Handbook of Aggressive and Destructive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients

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Social psychological approaches to aggression begin with the assumption that aggression is a reaction to situations. These situations involve the provocation of one person by another, followed by some act of retaliation. Other antecedents of aggression, whether genetic, temperamental, social or cultural in origin, are usually considered to act as moderators of situational effects but not to motivate aggression in and of themselves (Geen, 1990). This review is focused on several contemporary lines of theory and research on aggression as a response to provocations in interpersonal settings. Each proposes a set of intervening variables that mediate the connection between provocation and aggression, and several describe processes whereby aggressive behaviors are acquired and maintained. Of the latter, the most widely studied have been social learning theories.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA

    Russell G. Geen

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  1. Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

    Michel Hersen

  2. Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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Geen, R.G. (1994). Social Psychological. In: Hersen, M., Ammerman, R.T., Sisson, L.A. (eds) Handbook of Aggressive and Destructive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2403-8_4

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