From beliefs to behavior: The mediating role of hostile response selection in predicting aggression

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 453-472

  Bellmore, Amy D ^a   Witkow, Melissa R ^a   Graham, Sandra ^a   Juvonen, Jaana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Aggressive reputations; Ethnicity; Gender; Normative beliefs; Response selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744468847     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20094     Document Type: Article

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