Aggression and Adaptive Functioning: The Bright Side to Bad Behavior

By P. Hawley, B. Vaughn. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Developmental perspectives on prosocial and aggressive motives in preschoolers’ peer interactions (2005, background): “…to the Machiavellian or manipulative features of some prosocial behaviours (Hawley, 2003a) and to the ‘‘bright sides’’ of aggressive behaviours (Bukowski, 2003; Hawley & Vaughn, 2003; also see Hawley, 2003a, b; Prinstein & Cillessen, 2003; Vaughn, Vollenweider, Bost, Azria-Evans, & Snider, 2003).”
Paradigm change in aggression research: The time has come to retire the General Aggression Model (2012, background): “However other scholars have disputed the GAM's view of aggression (e.g., Ferguson & Beaver, 2009; Hawley & Vaughn, 2003; Smith, 2007) suggesting that aggression is better viewed on a continuum from adaptive behaviors to those which are maladaptive.”
Natural born killers: The genetic origins of extreme violence (2009, background): “Although aggression is often thought of as " bad " , particularly by social scientists, there is considerable evidence that aggression in moderate doses is adaptive (Ferguson, 2008; Hawley & Vaughn, 2003; Smith, 2007 ).”
Peer Crowd Affiliation and Internalizing Distress in Childhood and Adolescence: A Longitudinal Follow-Back Study (2002, methodology): “…validity data for adolescents’ self-reported peer crowd affiliation comes from a related dataset including both peer-nominated crowd affiliation scores and continuous scores of self-reported peer crowd affiliation using a revised version of the PCQ (Prinstein, 2001; Prinstein & Cohen, 2001).”
It’s “Mean,” But What Does It Mean to Adolescents? Relational Aggression Described by Victims, Aggressors, and Their Peers (2010, background): “More recently, Hawley and colleagues (Hawley, 2003; Hawley, Little, & Card, 2007; Hawley & Vaughn, 2003) built on this theory to indicate the concept of the well-adapted Machiavellian, who is able to achieve social dominance, while at the same time do so in a prosocial way that maintains one’s…”
Aggressive and nonaggressive rejected students : An analysis of their differences (2006, background): “With reference to aggressive rejected students, although they usually inform about the presence of more conflicts with their friends (Patterson et al., 1990), they also are often important figures in their peer group and therefore tend to enjoy benefits of social inclusion (Hawley & Vaughn, 2003).”