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Aggression

Aggression is behavior intended to harm, dominate, or threaten another individual, studied across psychology and neuroscience as a multidimensional construct rather than a single trait. It is commonly distinguished along several axes, including reactive aggression driven by perceived provocation or threat and proact…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 7 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 13× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2644-1101 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Aggression is behavior intended to harm, dominate, or threaten another individual, studied across psychology and neuroscience as a multidimensional construct rather than a single trait. It is commonly distinguished along several axes, including reactive aggression driven by perceived provocation or threat and proactive or instrumental aggression deployed to achieve a goal, as well as physical, verbal, and relational forms. Neurobiologically, aggression is associated with the function of limbic and prefrontal circuits, and clinical research differentiates it from related but distinct phenomena such as agitation, a distinction with practical importance in dementia, where the two reflect different underlying mechanisms and call for different management. Developmental work examines aggression in childhood, including longitudinal interventions designed to reduce aggressive behavior in young children and to alter trajectories before patterns consolidate. In adults, aggression manifests in social and organizational settings, including workplace bullying within institutions and in extended hostility framed through constructs such as hatred, which is analyzed as a multifaceted phenomenon spanning emotion, cognition, and protracted conflict. Aggression also intersects with mood and cognition, as depression and cognitive deficits can accompany or modulate aggressive presentations. Understanding aggression therefore requires integration of biological, developmental, cognitive, emotional, and social factors, informing assessment, prevention, and intervention across clinical, educational, occupational, and broader societal contexts.

Research published in this journal

7 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2016

Depression and Dementia

Volicer LadislavCorresponding author
School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Exact topic Depression And Therapy Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2476-1710.jdt-16-1260

How this research is being cited

The 7 articles above have been cited 13 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Human Psychology (ISSN 2644-1101).

Journal editorial board
Christopher Mesagno · Australia Larkin Lamarche · canada Giuseppe Lanza · Italy

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