Animal and Human Aggression
Animal and Human Aggression

Author: Pierre Karli

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Is aggressiveness our fate or our responsibility? In this stimulating new book, a distinguished French neurobiologist grapples with this compelling question. Drawing on his thirty years research, Karli analyzes the many factors that may contribute to the appearance of aggressive behavior in animals and humans. The relationships between brain mechanisms and the initiation of aggressive behavior, as well as the various means that are available for controlling individual and collective acts of aggression, are discussed. Professor Karli's book will be of value not only to research workers in psychology and animal behavior but also to all thoughtful scientists interested in this vitally important aspect of human behavior.

Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals
Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals

Author: Henry R. Hermann

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2017-01-05

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0128092955

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Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals: The Great Game of Life examines human nature and the influence of evolution, genetics, chemistry, nurture, and the sociopolitical environment as a way of understanding how and why humans behave in aggressive and dominant ways. The book walks us through aggression in other social species, compares and contrasts human behavior to other animals, and then explores specific human behaviors like bullying, abuse, territoriality murder, and war. The book examines both individual and group aggression in different environments including work, school, and the home. It explores common stressors triggering aggressive behaviors, and how individual personalities can be vulnerable to, or resistant to, these stressors. The book closes with an exploration of the cumulative impact of human aggression and dominance on the natural world. Reviews the influence of evolution, genetics, biochemistry, and nurture on aggression Explores aggression in multiple species, including insects, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals Compares human and animal aggressive and dominant behavior Examines bullying, abuse, territoriality, murder, and war Includes nonaggressive behavior in displays of respect and tolerance Highlights aggression triggers from drugs to stress Discusses individual and group behavior, including organizations and nations Probes dominance and aggression in religion and politics Translates the impact of human behavior over time on the natural world

Animal Cruelty, Antisocial Behaviour, and Aggression
Animal Cruelty, Antisocial Behaviour, and Aggression

Author: Eleonora Gullone

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1137284544

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Demonstrating that animal cruelty behaviours are another form of antisocial behaviour, alongside human aggression and violence, and almost without exception are carried out by the same individuals this book offers clear recommendations for future research on animal cruelty and future action aimed at prevention.

Advances in the Study of Aggression
Advances in the Study of Aggression

Author: Robert J. Blanchard

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1483215768

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Advances in the Study of Aggression, Volume 1 aims to span some of the variety of aggression research, pinpointing areas in which phenomena or concepts that have arisen or been tested extensively with animal models are now being applied to human aggression. Chapter 1 presents an article on the relevance of animal aggression research to human aggression and discusses a brief sociobiological view of aggression and its immediate determinants over a number of mammalian species. A description of some features of human aggression and endeavor and its link to the animal model is also considered in this chapter. Chapter 2 is an article on the biological explanations of human aggression and the resulting therapies offered by such approaches, and Chapter 3 is an article on the development of stable aggressive reaction patterns in males. The next chapter is about the control of aggressive behavior by changes in attitudes, values, and the conditions of learning. Chapter 5 describes the coercive interactions of siblings and parents as well as those for siblings and identified problem children. Differences in sibling reactions between normal and distressed families together with the relationship of these differences to increased rates of coercive behaviors in distressed families are encompassed in this chapter. The text concludes by discussing advances in aggression research. Psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, anthropologists will find the book invaluable.

Developmental Origins of Aggression
Developmental Origins of Aggression

Author: Richard Ernest Tremblay

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2005-03-15

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9781593851101

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"Offering the first comprehensive analysis of this topic in over 30 years, this book is sure to fuel discussion and debate among researchers, practitioners, and students in developmental psychology, child clinical psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, criminology, and related disciplines. In the classroom, it is a unique and valuable text for graduate-level courses."--BOOK JACKET.

Animal Conflict
Animal Conflict

Author: Felicity Huntingford

Publisher: Chapman & Hall

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780412287503

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Animals regularly come into conflict with other members of their own species; this book is about the behaviour used by animals (both human and non-human) to resolve conflicts of interest and how aggression relates to their ecological and social environment. A wide range of important issues are introduced, the scene having first been set by a survey of the variety of aggressive behaviour shown by different animal groups. Widely used concepts such as threats, ritualized fighting, territory, dominance and the use of alternative strategies are defined and discussed. The book goes on to look at different facets of the biological study of animal conflict, taking in turn motivational studies and the role of environmental stimuli; the hormonal and neurophysiological bases of agonistic behaviour; genetic and environmental influences on its development; the consequences of conflict for the individual, population, community and species; the evolutionary history of fighting behaviour and its adaptive significance. Finally, the relevance of these different kinds of study to our understanding of human aggression is discussed. -- from back cover.

Animal Conflict
Animal Conflict

Author: Felicity A. Huntingford

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 940093145X

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In the past twenty years there have been many new developments in the study of animal behaviour: for example, more sophisticated methods of neurophysiology; more precise techniques for assessing hormonal levels; more accurate methods for studying animals in the wild; and, on the functional side, the growth of behavioural ecology with its use of optimality theory and game theory. In addition, there has been a burgeoning number of studies on a wide range of species. The study of aggression has benefited greatly from these develop ments; this is reflected in the appearance of a number of specialized texts, both on behavioural ecology and on physiology and genetics. However, these books have often been collections of papers by spe cialists for specialists. No one book brings together for the non specialist all the diverse aspects of aggression, including behavioural ecology, genetics, development, evolution and neurophysiology. Neither has there been a comparative survey dealing with all these aspects. Therefore one of our aims in writing this book was to fill in these gaps. Another of our aims was to put aggression into context with respect to other aspects of an animal's lifestyle and in particular to other ways in which animals deal with conflicts of interest. Aggressive behaviour does not occur in a biological vacuum. It both influences and is influenced by the animal's ecological and social environment, so we consider both the complex antecedent conditions in which aggressive behaviour occurs, and its ramifying consequences in the ecosystem.