The Development of Violence and Aggression: Brain, Context, and Socialisation?
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2022) | Viewed by 342
Special Issue Editor
Interests: social and cognitive decision making; spatio-temporal dynamics of complex cogni-tion/emotion; applied EEG and fMRI methods development; violence, aggression, and pro-social behaviors; media psychology
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Dear Colleagues,
Several trajectories of human aggression development over a whole lifetime have been discussed that were mainly characterized by a general lifetime peak between two and four years of age and a second peak occurring in sub-groups of adolescents. Furthermore, aggression appears to monotonously decrease over a lifetime in almost all adult individuals at different individual base levels. One of the most serious problems in science on the development of aggressive-violent behaviors is the complicated organization and, therefore, a general lack of longitudinal studies in the field. Nevertheless, cross-sectional studies can provide a lot of puzzle pieces of insights into the topic for a better and growing understanding of the whole issue. For the here proposed Special Issue, we invite scientists to submit empirical studies and/or theoretical works and opinions on modulators of violent and aggressive behavioral development over the lifespan or during particular life periods such as childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The appliance of different kinds of experimental approaches (e.g., abstract or naturalistic), the examinations of different kinds of violence-related behaviors (e.g., reactive, pro-active, instrumental, etc.), and different neurophysiological, contextual, and societal, but also pathological modulators are welcome to be reported and discussed.
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Fehr
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- individual development
- socialization and learning history, violence and aggression
- social decision making
- impulse control
- functional neuroimaging, biosignal analysis (EEG, MEG)
- contextual modulators
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