Social Problem Solving and the Development of Aggression

Social Problem Solving and Offending: Evidence, Evaluation and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-49

  Keltikangas Järvinen, Liisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aggressive behaviour; Developmental psychology; Psychoanalytic theories; Psychodynamic terms; Social cognitive information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80455149354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713488.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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