Developmental Psychobiology of Aggression

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 15
1 Integrated Perspective for Psychobiological Research in Aggression: An Introduction......Page 17
plasticity......Page 19
gene–environment interactions......Page 20
principles of aggression research......Page 21
part i: Plasticity......Page 25
introduction......Page 27
genetics......Page 28
Gene by Environmental Interactions......Page 29
Gene by Environmental Correlation and the Moderating Effects of Demographics......Page 30
Moderating Effect of Benign Home Backgrounds: The Social Push Perspective......Page 31
Protective Factors......Page 33
Interpretation of Reduced Autonomic Activity in Antisocial Children......Page 34
Pregnancy Complications......Page 35
Birth Complications......Page 37
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)......Page 40
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)......Page 41
Prospective, Longitudinal Findings......Page 42
Social Demands of Adolescence Overloading Executive Functions......Page 43
Hormones......Page 45
conclusions and recommendations......Page 46
brain plasticity and social development......Page 57
social in uences on behavioral development: brief historical perspective......Page 59
social deprivation and maternal separation: effects on social–emotional behavior......Page 61
dopamine function in socially and maternally deprived animals......Page 62
reversibility of the effects of social deprivation on social behavior and dopamine function......Page 66
concluding remarks on social deprivation, dopamine function, and social development......Page 69
acknowledgments......Page 73
introduction......Page 83
using hamsters to study the effects of stress and alcohol exposure in adolescence......Page 85
Serotonin......Page 86
Vasopressin......Page 87
vasopressin/serotonin interactions......Page 88
social subjugation in adult animals......Page 89
social subjugation in adolescence......Page 90
voluntary alcohol consumption in adolescence......Page 91
summary......Page 93
acknowledgments......Page 94
5 Links Between Girls’ Puberty and Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors: Moving from Demonstrating Effects to…......Page 101
puberty and adjustment: demonstrating effects......Page 106
Hormone Effects on Adjustment......Page 107
Status Effects on Adjustment, or Teasing Apart Status and Hormonal Effects......Page 109
Timing Effects on Adjustment......Page 111
"Arousal" as a Pathway to Increased Symptomatology......Page 116
Social Relations as Pathways to Increased Symptomatology......Page 119
Deficits in Social Skills as Pathways to Symptomatology......Page 121
References......Page 122
part ii: BIDIRECTIONALITY......Page 129
introduction......Page 131
Early Touch Deprivation and Later Aggression......Page 132
Early Touch Deprivation and Later Depression......Page 136
Early Touch Deprivation and Later Negative Body Image and Body Dissociation......Page 137
Retrospective Data Linking Early Touch Deprivation and Suicidal Ideation......Page 139
Mediating Risk Factors for Adolescent Suicide......Page 140
Potential Underlying Neurological and Biochemical Dysfunction......Page 142
EEG Abnormalities......Page 143
Lower Serotonin Levels......Page 144
A Potential Model for Suicidal Thoughts......Page 145
Interventions......Page 146
Massage Therapy......Page 148
Summary and Future Directions......Page 149
a biosocial perspective on aggression......Page 155
Aggression and Child-Rearing Practices at 2 Years......Page 159
The Moderating Role of Socialization on Later Externalizing Problems......Page 160
The Moderating Role of Child Sex on Later Observed Aggression......Page 161
Socialization and Antisocial Development......Page 162
Biological Processes and Antisocial Development......Page 164
Empathy and Prosocial Development......Page 166
conclusions and recommendations......Page 167
the two prototypes and their predicted adult outcomes......Page 175
differential child and adolescent risk factors for males on the life-course persistent versus adolescence-limited paths......Page 176
are two groups enough? following up "recoveries" and "abstainers"......Page 177
measures of adult outcomes......Page 178
the comparison groups of the taxonomy......Page 179
findings about crime participation......Page 180
personality......Page 187
personal and family relationships......Page 188
economic life......Page 189
what did we learn about the abstainer group: they grew up to be successful young adults......Page 190
what we learned about the recovery group: they were misnamed earlier, and they grew up to suffer "internalizing" problems......Page 191
what we learned about the life-course persistent group: they grew up to be the most violent and least likely to reform......Page 193
what we learned about the adolescencelimited group: their problems are not limited to adolescence......Page 195
implications from the findings of this follow-up study......Page 198
introduction......Page 201
Adaptation Through Development and Microevolution......Page 202
Temperament and Adaptability......Page 203
Person X Environment Interactions and Contingent Outcomes......Page 204
The Moderating Effect of Social Relationships......Page 206
Life History......Page 207
Neuroendocrine Architecture of Life History and Behavior......Page 208
Niche Construction and Multiple Inheritance as Microevolutionary Process......Page 209
Niche Partitioning and the Socialization of Affect......Page 210
temperament, testosterone, and life history: a case study of !kung san hunters......Page 211
Individual Differences in Testosterone Profiles......Page 212
Testosterone and Social Relationships......Page 215
Testosterone and Efficacy......Page 218
Psychobiology of Behavior, Niche Partitioning, and Life History......Page 219
culture and life history: comparative ethnography......Page 222
Trauma (Production, Interpretation, Alleviation)......Page 224
Behavioral Demands, Expectations, and Sanctions......Page 225
a biocultural view of the developmental psychobiology of aggression......Page 226
part iii: GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS......Page 237
10 Toward an Integrative Account of the Development of Aggressive Behavior......Page 239
the dyadic interchange as a unit of analysis......Page 242
development as a dependent variable......Page 243
The Developmental–Genetic Analysis......Page 245
Understanding Developmental–Genetic Processes......Page 249
genotype–environment interactions as developmental plasticity......Page 250
Housing and Age-Related Interactions......Page 251
Hormones......Page 253
Neurotransmitters......Page 254
Immune System Function......Page 255
maternal mediation of neonatal stressors......Page 256
Maternal Effects on Adult Social Development......Page 257
Selective Breeding Effects on Dam–Pup Relationships?......Page 258
implications for the understanding of aggressive behavior......Page 259
introduction......Page 266
species–normative development and the regulation of aggression in rhesus monkeys......Page 269
individual differences in the regulation of aggression......Page 271
effects of early peer rearing......Page 273
gene–environment interactions......Page 275
summary and commentary......Page 277
CONCLUSION......Page 283
introduction......Page 285
Plasticity......Page 286
Bidirectionality......Page 290
Genetics......Page 294
Models and Theories......Page 296
Methods and Measures......Page 297
Prevention......Page 298
Interventions......Page 300
Author Index......Page 305
Subject Index......Page 312