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This paper has two purposes. First, I discuss three interactionist approaches to aggression that can be found in the literature. Most attention is given to an approach that interprets aggression as punishment for perceived wrongdoing, since that approach has never been fully explained. I argue that each approach is useful but limited in its ability to account for how aggressive encounters develop. Then, using some of the ideas developed in the theoretical section, I analyze self-reports of aggressive encounters of different levels of severity. An attempt is made to describe in a theoretically informed way what occurs in interactions that culminate in an aggressive attack.
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Felson, R.B. (1984). Patterns of Aggressive Social Interaction. In: Mummendey, A. (eds) Social Psychology of Aggression. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48919-8_7
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