Human Aggression
also many newer lines of research, to which I will return below, are represented in various chapters. And finally, I have included a sepa rate unit on methods for the study of aggression-a feature that I believe to be unique to the present volume. In the
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PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY A Series of Texts and Monographs • Edited by Elliot Aronson
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION By Edward L. Deci SCHOOL DESEGREGATION By Harold B. Gerard and Norman Miller HUMAN AGGRESSION By Robert A. Baron
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Human Aggression ROBERT A. BARON Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Baron, Robert A Human aggression. (Perspectives in social psychology) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Aggressiveness (Psychology) I. Title. BF575.A3B35 301.6'3 ISBN 978-1-4615-7197-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-7195-7
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To The Little Red-Haired Girl, who is the source of my incompatible responses, and to my parents, who gave me the freedom to grow.
Preface: A Note to My Colleagues An announcement appearing in a recent issue of a newsletter distributed quarterly to several thousand psychologists read, in part, as follows: Free. A bibliography of approximately 350 books on human aggression is available from Prof. Gordon W. Russell. (Italics added)
Given such a wealth of existing materials on aggressive behavior, one may well wonder why, at the present time, I have chosen to add to this huge assemblage by writing still another volume on the same topic. While this is an eminently reasonable question, I hope that I can respond to it with equally reasonable answers. Basically, my decision to produce the present volume stemmed from two major sources. First, it grew quite naturally out of my own teaching experience. Over the years, I have frequently conducted both advanced undergraduate and graduate classes on the topic of human aggression. Unfortunately, in selecting appropriate texts for these courses, I have often found myself confronting something of a dilemma. The choice, it seemed, was one between two distinct categories of books. In the first were several scholarly, comprehensive treatises, which were designed for professional audiences and which, as a result, were far "over the heads" of the students I asked to read them. In the second group, by way of contrast, were a number of briefer, simpler texts, more readily comprehended by unsophisticated readers. Disappointingly, though, these were also usually quite restricted in scope. Thus, while both groups offered certain important advantages, neither seemed quite appropriat
