Science news articles about 'acts of aggression'

... of Kentucky. "And while not everyone who feels rejected reacts violently, we found they tend to act out aggressively in other ways. We wanted to help explain psychologically why this happens." A full ...

... . Behaviors in which harm was intended were coded as acts of aggression -- even if that aggression was indirect. "Indirect aggression is identified as harmful behaviors that are non-physical," Linder ...

... These children also were more likely to be victimized by their peers, perhaps in retaliation for their own acts of aggression. "Children's early mental health problems can set the stage for abuse by ...

... a greater WHR than females. Previous research has suggested that males with a larger WHR act more aggressively than those with a smaller WHR. For example, studies have shown that hockey players with ...

... thin melanomas. This is significant because most thin melanomas have a good prognosis, but some act more aggressively and currently there is no accurate way to distinguish between the types of thin ...

... then videotaped encounters among the wasps and played the tapes back, recording and scoring all acts of aggression. They found that distinctively-marked wasps were less likely to be the targets of ...