PURPOSE This study explored the extent to which trait aggression is associated with suicidal behavior in a nationwide school-based sample of adolescents. METHODS A nationwide sample of 14,537 high school students in urban areas of China was recruited. Information concerning suicide ideation, plans, attempts, trait aggression and other risk factors was collected by a self-reported questionnair...

Building on past research that has suggested that relatively greater left frontal cortical activity is associated with approach-related anger and that individuals who are high in trait anger are more likely to evidence angry responses, the present research tested whether individuals high in trait anger would be more likely to evidence relatively greater left frontal cortical activity in respons...

Research has consistently demonstrated a link between certain personality disorders (PDs) and increased rates of aggression and violence. At present, understanding of the mechanisms that underlie this relationship is limited. This study was designed to examine the contention (Gilbert & Daffern, 2011) that the application of a contemporary psychological aggression theory, the General Aggression ...

Citation: Krauch M, Ueltzhöffer K, Brunner R, Kaess M, Hensel S, Herpertz SC and Bertsch K (2018) Heightened Salience of Anger and Aggression in Female Adolescents With Borderline Personality Disorder—A Script-Based fMRI Study. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 12:57. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00057 Heightened Salience of Anger and Aggression in Female Adolescents With Borderline Personality Disorder—A Scr...

Aggression is a behavior that might be accompanied by violence and agonistic behavior. Aggression and violence have numerous social adverse effects such as family conflict, crime, murder, rape and theft. International issues of war and terrorism are correlated as well (1). WHO categorizes violence among the top 20 causes of disability adjusted life years worldwide and this figure projected to i...

BACKGROUND People with acquired brain injury (ABI) often show increased anger and aggression. Anger has been linked to attributions of hostile intent. The more intentional and hostile the judgments of other's behaviours are, the angrier the responses tend to be. Some people with ABI tend to make harsher attributions than healthy controls (negative attribution bias). Poor perspective-taking may ...

Testosterone has been shown to relate to power, dominance, social status, and aggression. However, no research has related situationally induced changes in testosterone to subjective emotional experience. Based on the fact that anger relates to power, dominance, social status, and aggression, we predicted that testosterone would be uniquely related to the subjective experience of anger. In this...