A child abuse analog was created by placing an adult in a frustrating teaching situation with a child. Failure was programed regardless of the adult's efforts. Intensity of responses to the child's signals of success and failure, particularly responses to signals of failure, increased without the adult's awareness. (Author/DB)

The role of fantasy in moderating overt expressions of aggression was investigated by examining the relationship, in 15 incarcerated adolescent women, between aggressive behavior and hostile content on the Thematic Apperception Test. Results suggest no significant relationship between these variables, at least with this incarcerated, predominantly…

Children who engaged in fantasy behavior after a frustrating incident were significantly more extrapunitive than control subjects. Age was significantly but negatively correlated with outward aggression. (Author/DB)

Two studies of aggressive and unaggressive emotionally disturbed boys (total N=72) in residential treatment examined whether the more aggressive children exhibit either an attributional bias to infer hostility regardless of the nature of the social stimuli that they appraised or an actual ability to detect true instances of hostility. (Author/CL)

Examines how variation in the number of modeled motor and verbal sex-typed behaviors might differentially affect boys' and girls' subsequent performances. (JMB)

Two studies investigated preschool children's acceptance of the reciprocity norms that allow retaliation and that require returning favors. Children viewed cartoons that portrayed animal puppets involved in reciprocal or nonreciprocal aggressive and prosocial behavior. They were then asked to evaluate the actor in each cartoon as "good"…

This study investigated the parameters of the smile as a signal. (Subjects were 733 adults of both sexes.) It was hypothesized for adults that gender influences rates of smiling, that smiles effectively elicit smile responses and that a social milieu increases smile responses. (MS)

Eighty male college freshmen participated in an experiment designed to investigate the hypothesis that enhanced arousal will facilitate subsequent aggressive behavior and that an increase in aggressive behavior will be more likely to occur in a setting of situational permissiveness rather than situational restrictiveness. (Editor)

To explore anger and its expression, examines adolescents' (N=18) anger within the confines of a residential establishment. Results indicate that anger is a common event with this group. Themes that arose as precipitates for anger were disrespect, unfairness, injustice, personal irritation, annoyance, and enforced compliance with rules. (RJM)

Tests a model of couple violence drawn from several theoretical perspectives. The outcome distinguishes among nonviolent couples and those experiencing either physical aggression or intense male violence. According to the model, background characteristics of couples are related to relationship stressors, which affect the risk of violence via their…

Examined the relations between aggressive problem-solving strategies and aggressive behavior and the intervening role of social acceptance in that relation in early and late adolescents. Subjects were 1,655 11- and 17-year-olds in Finland. Results show that aggressive problem-solving strategies were significantly, but not very highly, associated…

The authors examined the relationship between self- monitoring and pluralistic ignorance and self-reported sexually aggressive behaviors by freshman and sophomore male college students. Results indicated that self-monitoring style and level of pluralistic ignorance were correlated positively with sexual aggression. The authors review relevant…

Presents teaching strategies for parents to use when dealing with aggression during neighborhood or playgroup interactions. Includes suggestions for being prepared for events that take place during various types of play, informing children that family rules will be enforced, playing the role of mediator during conflicts, and allowing application…

Examines the structure of self-reported problem behaviors in Mainland Chinese children. Findings suggest that among the four factors studied, self-centered behaviors and physical aggression were reported most frequently. Suggests that the single factor conceptualization in which different types of problem behaviors are hypothesized to reflect a…