Verbal aggressiveness as an expression of selected biological influences

Arguments, Aggression, and Conflict: New Directions in Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-25

  Beatty, Michael J ^a   Pence, Michelle E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University ^*  (United States)

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