Citation

Walters GD. Aggress. Violent Behav. 2000; 5(2): 177-190.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S1359-1789(98)00020-2

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The heritability, cross-situational consistency, and cross-temporal stability of aggressive behavior is examined in an effort to assess the logical, practical, and empirical utility of the violence-prone personality. For reasons of conceptual obscurity, circular reasoning, labeling, and negation of process, the concept of a violence-prone personality is rejected in favor of several more specific processes (i.e., Person × Situation interaction, survival strategies, psychological adjustment, the motivation to avoid change, implicit personality theories, systemic reinforcement of behavior, environmental stability, methodological issues).