Browsing by Subject "Aggression"
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Aggressive behavior and quality of friendships: Linear and curvilinear associations
(2009)The current study investigates linear and curvilinear associations between overt aggressive behavior and the adolescents' reports of the quality of their friendships over time. Moderation by gender was also investigated. ...
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The association of community violence exposure with middle-school achievement: A prospective study
(2004)This study investigated the long-term effects of exposure to community violence on academic achievement and feelings of safety in school among a large sample of urban middle-school students (N = 759). It also considered ...
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Callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated adolescents
(American Psychological Association Inc, 2014)The presence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits designates a subgroup of antisocial youth at risk for severe, aggressive, and stable conduct problems. As a result, these traits should be considered as part of the criteria ...
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The evolutionary consequences of interspecific aggression
(2013)Competition has always been a cornerstone of evolutionary biology, and aggression is the predominant form of direct competition in animals, but the evolutionary effects of aggression between species are curiously understudied. ...
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Linking callous-unemotional traits to instrumental and non-instrumental forms of aggression
(2009)The current study investigated the relation of callous-unemotional (CU) traits to bullying, victimization, and proactive and reactive aggression. We also examined whether CU traits will be more strongly related to groups ...
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Maltreatment Profiles Among Incarcerated Boys With Callous-Unemotional Traits
(2013)Callous-unemotional (CU) traits in youth are believed to be a developmental precursor to adult psychopathy, tapping its affective dimension. There is growing support for the existence of variants of psychopathy that can ...
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Physical and verbal aggressive behavior and COMT genotype: Sensitivity to the environment
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2016)Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) genotype has been implicated as a vulnerability factor for several psychiatric diseases as well as aggressive behavior, either directly, or in interaction with an adverse environment. ...
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Psychometric properties and prognostic usefulness of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) as a component of a clinical protocol for detained youth: A multiethnic examination
(American Psychological Association Inc, 2017)Prior studies have shown that the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) holds promise as a self-report tool for assessing psychopathic traits in detained adolescents. However, these studies have been conducted in a ...
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Self-Reported Psychopathic Traits and Antisocial Outcomes in Detained Girls: A Prospective Study
(SAGE Publications Inc, 2017)This study examines the usefulness of self-reported psychopathy scores in predicting various antisocial outcomes in a sample of detained girls (n = 95, Mage = 16.25). Psychopathic traits at baseline were measured by the ...
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Stability Subtypes of Callous–Unemotional Traits and Conduct Disorder Symptoms and Their Correlates
(Springer New York LLC, 2016)Callous–unemotional traits and conduct disorder symptoms tend to co-occur across development, with existing evidence pointing to individual differences in the co-development of these problems. The current study identified ...
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Understanding heterogeneity in conduct disorder: A review of psychophysiological studies
(Elsevier Ltd, 2016)The present review is concerned with the role of different physiological systems (e.g., skin conductance, heart rate, electromyography, and the eye-bling startle reflex) in understanding heterogeneity in conduct disorder ...