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作者简介
Richard E. Tremblay, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Psychology
at the University of Montreal and Director of the Inter-University Research
Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment. He is also Director of the
Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, Canada Research
Chair in Child Development, Molson Fellow of the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research, Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology, and
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. For over 20 years, he has conducted a
program of longitudinal and experimental studies addressing the physical,
cognitive, emotional, and social development of children from conception
onward to understand the development and prevention of antisocial behavior.
Willard W. Hartup, EdD, is Regents’ Professor Emeritus and former Director
of the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Dr.
Hartup has spent many years researching friendship and peer relations in child
development, antipathies and their significance, and conflict and aggression in
childhood and adolescence. He obtained an EdD degree from Harvard University, and has received the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished
Contributions to Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological
Association and Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards from both the
Society for Research in Child Development and the International Society for
the Study of Behavioural Development.
John Archer, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Central
Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom. He received a PhD from the University
of Bristol in 1970. A Fellow of the British Psychological Society and President
of the International Society for Research on Aggression, his research is concerned with human aggression, grief and loss, and sex differences. Dr. Archer
is also author of several books, including Sex and Gender (with Barbara Lloyd)
and The Nature of Grief; numerous book chapters; and over 100 articles in
refereed journals covering psychology, medicine, and biology. In recent years,
he has published a number of meta-analytic reviews on topics connected with
sex differences in aggression.
目录信息
1 The Development of Aggression: Where Do We Stand?
Willard W. Hartup
II. THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGGRESSION IN ANIMALS AND HUMANS
2 Subtypes of Aggression in Humans and Animals
Paul L. Gendreau and John Archer
3 Play Fighting: Aggression, Affiliation, and the Development
of Nuanced Social Skills
Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis, and Afra Foroud
4 Genetic and Environmental Factors Influencing the Expression
of Impulsive Aggression and Serotonergic Functioning
in Rhesus Monkeys
Stephen J. Suomi
5 The Developmental Origins of Physical Aggression in Human
Richard E. Tremblay and Daniel S. Nagin
6 The Beginnings of Aggression in Infancy
Dale F. Hay
7 Play and the Regulation of Aggression
Jordan B. Peterson and Joseph L. Flanders
8 Indirect Aggression among Humans: Social Construct
or Evolutionary Adaptation?
Tracy Vaillancourt
9 Proactive and Reactive Aggression:
A Developmental Perspective
Frank Vitaro and Mara Brendgen
10 Homicide, Violence, and Developmental Trajectories
Rolf Loeber, Eric Lacourse, and D. Lynn Homish
III. DETERMINANTS OF AGGRESSION
11 Genetics and the Development of Aggression
Daniel Pérusse and Paul L. Gendreau
12 Mapping Brain Development and Aggression
Tomá Paus
13 Neuromodulators in the Development and Expression
of Inhibition and Aggression
Robert O. Pihl and Chawki Benkelfat
14 Hormones and the Developmental Origins of Aggression
Stephanie H. M. Van Goozen
15 Executive Function in Early Physical Aggression
Jean Richard Séguin and Philip David Zelazo
16 Language Development and Aggressive Behavior
Ginette Dionne
17 The Intergenerational Transmission of Aggression
and Antisocial Behavior
Mark Zoccolillo, Elisa Romano, David Joubert,
Tania Mazzarello, Sylvana Côté, Michel Boivin,
Daniel Pérusse, and Richard E. Tremblay
18 Peer Relationships and the Development of Aggressive
Behavior in Early Childhood
Michel Boivin, Frank Vitaro, and François Poulin
19 Social Capital and Physical Violence
Uberto Gatti and Richard E. Tremblay
20 Sex Differences in Aggressive Behavior:
A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective
John Archer and Sylvana Côté
IV. CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE
21 The Developmental Origins of Aggression:
Where Are We Going?
Richard E. Tremblay and Sylvana Côté
Index
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