Real-time decision making and aggressive behavior in youth: A heuristic model of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED)

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 604-624

  Fontaine, Reid Griffith ^a   Dodge, Kenneth A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Child development; Decision making; Social behavior; Social information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751103148     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20150     Document Type: Article

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