Rage and revenge: Highly aggressive boys' explanations for their responses to ambiguous provocation

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 331-350

  de Castro, Bram Orobio ^a   Verhulp, Esmée E ^a   Runions, Kevin ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggressive behaviour; Social cognition; Social information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861384339     PISSN: 17405629     EISSN: 17405610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405629.2012.680304     Document Type: Article

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