ABSTRACT
This book provides an up-to-date integration of some of the most recent developments in social psychological research on social conflict and aggression, one of the most perennial and puzzling topics in all of psychology. It offers an informative, scholarly yet readable overview of recent advances in research on the nature, antecedents, management, and consequences of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and aggression. The chapters share a broad integrative orientation, and argue that human conflict is best understood through the careful analysis of the cognitive, affective, and motivational processes of those involved in conflict situations, supplemented by a broadly-based understanding of the evolutionary, biological, as well as the social and cultural contexts within which social conflict occurs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|79 pages
Introduction and Basic Issues
chapter 4|12 pages
Is It Aggression?
part 2|84 pages
Cognitive and Affective Influences on Conflict and Aggression
chapter 6|19 pages
Nonconscious Battles of Will
chapter 7|16 pages
Using Both Your Head and Your Heart
part 3|66 pages
Conflict and Aggression in Relationships
chapter 14|14 pages
The Doormat Effect
part 4|92 pages
Social, Cultural, and Evolutionary Factors in Social Conflict and Aggression