Aggression:
Books, Chapters and Articles
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Books
Wellford, C. F., Pepper, J. V., & Petrie, C. V. (2004). Firearms and violence: A critical review. The National Academies Press. [added 3/3/05]
Burbank, V. K. (1994). Fighting women: Anger and aggression in aboriginal australia. Berkeley: University of California Press. [added 6/4/04]
Book Chapter
Sherry, J. L. (in press). Research on violent video games and aggression: A translation. In P. Messaris & L. Humphreys (Eds.). Digital media: Transformations in human communication. NY: Peter Lang. [added 7/15/05]
Articles
Adams, R. B., Gordon, H. L., Baird, A. A., Ambady, N., & Kleck, R. E. (2003). Effects of gaze on amygdala sensitivity to anger and fear faces. Science, 300, 1536-1537. [added 1/21/05]
Anderson, C.A. & Bushman, B.J. (2002). Human Aggression. Annual Review of Psychology, 53: 27-51.
Anderson, C.A. & Bushman, B.J. (2001). Media violence and the American public: Scientific facts versus media misinformation. American Psychologist, Vol. 56, No. 6/7, 477-489.
Bushman, B., Baumeister, R., & Stack, A. (1999). Catharsis, aggression, and persuasive influence: Self-fulfilling or self-defeating prophecies? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 76, No. 3, 367-376.
Bushman, B. J., Bonacci, A. M., van Dijk, M., & Baumeister, R. F. (2003). Narcissism, sexual refusal, and aggression: Testing a narcissistic reactance model of sexual coercion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1027-1040.
Bushman, B. J., & Cantor, J. (2003). Media ratings for violence and sex: Implications for policy makers and parents. American Psychologist, 58, 130-141. Download article
Bushman, B. J. & Anderson, C. A. (2002). Media violence and societal violence. Science, 295, 2377-2378.
Bushman, B. J. & Anderson, C. A. (2002). Human aggression. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 27-51.
Bushman, B. J. & Anderson, C. A. (2002). Media violence and the American Public revisited. American Psychologist, 57, 448-450.
Bushman, B. J. (2002). Does venting anger feed or extinguish the flame? Catharsis, rumination, distraction, anger, and aggressive responding. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 724-731.
Bushman, B. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2002). Violent video games and hostile expectations: A test of the General Aggression Model. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1679-1689.
Bushman, B. J., & Bonacci, A. M. (2002). Violence and sex impair memory for television ads. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 557-564. Washington Post article
Bushman, B. J. & Anderson, C. A. (2001). Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, physiological arousal, and prosocial behavior: A meta-analytic review of the scientific literature. Psychological Science, 12, 353-359.
Bushman, B. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2001). Media violence and the American public: Scientific facts versus media misinformation. American Psychologist, 56, 477-489.
Bushman, B. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2001). Is it time to pull the plug on the hostile versus instrumental aggression dichotomy? Psychological Review, 108, 273-279.
Bushman, B. J., Baumeister, R. F., & Phillips, C. M. (2001). Do people aggress to improve their Mood? Catharsis beliefs, affect regulation opportunity, and aggressive responding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 17-32.
Bushman, B. J., & Phillips, C. M. (2001). If the television program bleeds, memory for the advertisement recedes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 44-47.
Bushman, B. J., Baumeister, R. F., & Campbell, W. K. (2000). Self-esteem, narcissism, and aggression: Does violence result from low self-esteem or from threatened egotism? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 26-29.
Bushman, B. J., Baumeister, R. F., & Stack, A. D. (1999). Catharsis, aggression, and persuasive influence: Self-fulfilling or self-defeating prophecies? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 367-376. New York Times. Boston Globe.
Bushman, B. J. (1998). Effects of television violence on memory of commercial messages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 4, 291-307.
Bushman, B. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (1998). Threatened egotism, narcissism, self-esteem, and direct and displaced aggression: Does self-love or self-hate lead to violence? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 219-229.
Bushman, B. J. & Wells, G. L. (1998). Trait aggressiveness and hockey penalties: Predicting hot tempers on the ice. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83, 969-974.
Carnagey, N. L. & Anderson, C. A. (2007). Changes in attitudes towards war and violence after September 11, 2001. Aggressive Behavior, 33, 118-129. [added 7/14/07]
Carnagey, N. L., Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2007). The effect of video game violence on physiological desensitization to real-life violence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 489-496. [added 7/14/07]
Fischer, P., Kubitzki, J., Guter, S., & Frey, D. (2007). Virtual driving and risk taking: Do racing games increase risk-taking cognitions, affect, and behaviors? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 13, 22-31. [added 7/13/07]
Herek, G.M. (in press). Hate crimes and stigma-related experiences among sexual minority adults in the United States: Prevalence estimates from a national probability sample. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. [added 11/20/07]
Hickman, L.J., Jaycox, L. & Aronoff, J. (2004). Dating Violence Among Adolescents Prevalence, Gender Distribution, and Prevention Program Effectiveness. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 2004, pp. 123-142. [added 11/30/05]
Jackson, B., Kubzansky, L. B., Cohen, S., Jacobs, D. R., & Wright, R. J. (2007). Does harboring hostility hurt? Associations between hostility and pulmonary function in the coronary artery risk development in (young) adults (CARDIA) study. Health Psychology, 26, 333-340. [added 7/14/07]
Neighbors, C., Vietor, N. A., & Knee, C. R. (2002). A motivational model of driving anger and aggression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 324-335. [added 6/4/04]
Olshen, E., McVeigh, K. H., Wunsch-Hitzig, R. A., & Rickert, V. I. (2007). Dating violence, sexual assault, and suicide attempts among urban teenagers. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 161, 539-545. [added 7/14/07]
Peterson, J. S. & Ray, K. E. (2006). Bullying and the gifted: Victims, perpetrators, prevalence, and effects. Gifted Child Quarterly, 50, 148-168. [added 7/6/07]
Sherry, J. L. (2001). The effects of violent video games on aggression: A meta-analysis. Human Communication Research, 27(3), 409-431. [added 7/15/05]
Webb, T., Jenkins, L., Browne, N., Afifi, A. A., & Kraus, J. (2007). Violent entertainment pitched to adolescents: An analysis of PG-13 films. Pediatrics, 119, 1219-1229. [added 7/14/07]
Wirth, M. M., & Schultheiss, O. C. (2007). Basal testosterone moderates responses to anger faces in humans. Physiology and Behavior, 90, 496-505.
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