Aggression and Adaptation: The Bright Side to Bad Behavior - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080586234X ISBN 13: 9780805862348

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Aggression and Adaptation raises thought provoking questions about interpersonal functioning within social groups. The reader may find him/herself entertaining thoughts about the nature of goodness as the chapters suggest that aggressive behavior can offer significant avenues for personal growth, goal attainment, and bolstering one's social standing. The volume brings to light alternative points of view to the prevailing orthodoxy that aggression equals pathology. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book features evolutionary, school, feminist, historical, and methodological perspectives.

Adaptation is addressed at multiple levels, the first of which is ultimate causation. Four chapters cover the aggression-adaptation link from various evolutionary perspectives. Succeeding chapters focus on: adaptation as psychological adjustment; aggression in the peer system and the contexts in which these systems occur; and the self-other dialectic in societal context, highlighting that aggressive children are often well-embedded in the social network.

Intended for researchers in developmental, evolutionary, social, personality, and educational psychology, as well as developmental psychopathologists, this book is also suitable for advanced courses on social-personality development, the psychology of violence, aggression, peer relationships, and human motivation.

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About the Author

Todd D. Little (Edited by) , Philip C. Rodkin (Edited by) , Patricia H. Hawley (Edited by)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080586234X
• ISBN 13: 9780805862348
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: Little Todd D., Hawley Patricia H., Rodkin Philip C.