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Table of Contents

Communicating Aggression

Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Communicating Aggression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2. Theories of Aggression:

An Interdisciplinary Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

A. Instinct theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

B. Drive theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

C. Social learning theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

D. Cognitive theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

E. Biological theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3. Forms of Aggression

within a Communication Encounter . . . . . . . . . . 13

A. Nonverbal aggression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

B. Verbal aggression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

C. Reasons for communicating aggression . . . . . 14

4. Two Competing Models of Verbal Aggression . . 16

A. Argumentative skill deficiency model . . . . . . 16

B. The communibiological perspective . . . . . . . . 19

5. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Added Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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