Psychologists mostly from the US sample current thinking and debates concerning human aggression, intimidation, and violence from perspectives of theory, genetic and environmental determinants,
psychological and relational processes, aggression at the societal level, and the victim perspective on consequences of aggression. Among their topics are the influence of violence and
aggression on children's psychological development, an existential perspective on violent solutions to ethno-political conflict, evolved mechanisms for revenge and forgiveness, social
information processing patterns as mediators of the interaction between genetic factors and life experiences in the development of aggressive behavior, and a behavioral systems perspective on
power and aggression. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
