Across species, social hierarchies are often governed by dominance relations. In humans,
where there are multiple culturally valued axes of distinction, social hierarchies can take a …

Research on the relation between social information processing and social adjustment in
childhood is reviewed and interpreted within the framework of a reformulated model of …

Previous research has established leader development as an ongoing process across the
entire lifespan. Experience, especially on-the-job experience, has been increasingly …

The authors outline a psychological model of extremism and analyze violent extremism as a
special case of it. Their significance quest theory identifies 3 general drivers of violent …

This article proposes an evolutionary model of risky behavior in adolescence and contrasts it
with the prevailing developmental psychopathology model. The evolutionary model …

After listing the propositions that must be considered as basic, the author formulates a theory
of human motivation in line with these propositions and with the known facts derived from …

We have written this book with an eye and ear toward a variety of audiences, ranging from
practitioners and professionals to researchers like ourselves. The vantage point from which …

Prior studies of childhood aggression have demonstrated that, as a group, boys are more
aggressive than girls. We hypothesized that this finding reflects a lack of research on forms …

We examined social-information-processing mechanisms (eg, hostile attributional biases
and intention-cue detection deficits) in chronic reactive and proactive aggressive behavior in …

Bullying was investigated as a group process, a social phenomenon taking place in a school
setting among 573 Finnish sixth‐grade children (286 girls, 287 boys) aged 12–13 years …