@article{ref1,
title="Aggression and the use of coercive power",
journal="Journal of Social Issues",
year="1977",
author="Tedeschi, James T. and Gaes, Gerald G. and Rivera, Alba N.",
volume="33",
number="1",
pages="101-125",
abstract="That body of social psychological literature typically subsumed under the concept of aggression is reinterpreted as a compendium of different processes and functional relationships including equity, reciprocity, and self-defense. An evaluation of this literature leads to the conclusion that social psychological researchers have concentrated their efforts in studying retaliatory behaviors whereas &quot;aggression&quot; commonly refers to harm doing initiated by some transgressor. A reconceptualization based on the concept of coercive power leads to a clearer understanding of harm-doing actions and allows researchers to classify and distinguish initiated harm-doing actions from those that are retaliatory. Having made this distinction, a set of propositions related to the initiation of harm doing isspelled out, and the implications for the social control of such behavior are considered.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4537",
doi="10.1111/j.1540-4560.1977.tb01871.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1977.tb01871.x"
}