The General Aggression Model and Its Application to Violent Offender Assessment and Treatment

Gilbert, Flora; Daffern, Michael; Anderson, Craig A.

doi:10.1002/9781119057574.whbva037

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“…Support for both models is well established (Anderson & Bushman, ; Gilbert, Daffern, & Anderson, in press; Prot et al, ). For example, personality traits such as narcissism, impulsivity, and neuroticism are associated with aggressive cognitions and feelings, which, in turn, increase the likelihood of aggressive behavior.…”

Section: General Learning and Aggression Modelsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Helping and hurting others: Person and situation effects on aggressive and prosocial behavior as assessed by the Tangram task

Saleem

Barlett

Anderson

et al. 2016

Aggressive Behavior

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The Tangram Help/Hurt Task is a laboratory-based measure designed to simultaneously assess helpful and hurtful behavior. Across five studies we provide evidence that further establishes the convergent and discriminant validity of the Tangram Help/Hurt Task. Cross-sectional and meta-analytic evidence finds consistently significant associations between helpful and hurtful scores on the Tangram Task and prosocial and aggressive personality traits. Experimental evidence reveals that situational primes known to induce aggressive and prosocial behavior significantly influence helpful and hurtful scores on the Tangram Help/Hurt Task. Additionally, motivation items in all studies indicate that tangram choices are indeed associated with intent of helping and hurting. We discuss the advantages and limitations of the Tangram Help/Hurt Task relative to established measures of helpful and hurtful behavior. Aggr. Behav. 43:133-146, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Section: General Learning and Aggression Modelsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Helping and hurting others: Person and situation effects on aggressive and prosocial behavior as assessed by the Tangram task

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Barlett

Anderson

et al. 2016

Aggressive Behavior

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“…Despite their limitations, all three of these models have been used to develop intervention strategies and evidence-based programs (Lochman and Wells, 2002;Hawkins and Cougle, 2013;Gilbert et al, 2017;Osgood et al, 2021). Each of these models acknowledge the relative contributions of situational and intrapersonal variables in driving these effects but varies in terms of specifying their role concerning cognitive control processes.…”

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Cognitive Control Processes and Defense Mechanisms That Influence Aggressive Reactions: Toward an Integration of Socio-Cognitive and Psychodynamic Models of Aggression

Gagnon

Quansah

McNicoll

2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Research on cognitive processes has primarily focused on cognitive control and inhibitory processes to the detriment of other psychological processes, such as defense mechanisms (DMs), which can be used to modify aggressive impulses as well as self/other images during interpersonal conflicts. First, we conducted an in-depth theoretical analysis of three socio-cognitive models and three psychodynamic models and compared main propositions regarding the source of aggression and processes that influence its enactment. Second, 32 participants completed the Hostile Expectancy Violation Paradigm (HEVP) in which scenarios describe a hostile vs. non-hostile social context followed by a character's ambiguous aversive behavior. The N400 effect to critical words that violate expected hostile vs. non-hostile intent of the behavior was analyzed. Prepotent response inhibition was measured using a Stop Signal task (SST) and DMs were assessed with the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-60). Results showed that reactive aggression and HIA were not significantly correlated with response inhibition but were significantly positively and negatively correlated with image distorting defense style and adaptive defense style, respectively. The present article has highlighted the importance of integrating socio-cognitive and psychodynamic models to account for the full complexity underlying psychological processes that influence reactive aggressive behavior.

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“…These gender differences are likely to reflect differences in the development of criminal behaviour across gender. Given findings that women can engage in more covert aggression highlights the importance of understanding and formulating such behaviour when formulation treatment pathways for this population (Gilbert et al , 2017).…”

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Life Minus Violence-Enhanced (LMV-E) with women in custody: single-case experimental design

McKeown

McCrory²

2019

JCRPP

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Purpose The purpose of this single-case experimental design paper is to examine the efficacy of the high-dosage Life Minus Violence – Enhanced (LMV-E) programme with a small sample of four violent women in custody. All participants were undertaking LMV-E as one component of their treatment pathway in an Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) treatment service for women with personality disorder. The methodology employed an AB baseline design with a six-month baseline period, nine-month treatment period and six-month follow-up. Levels of direct and indirect aggression were recorded throughout the baseline, intervention, and follow-up period. In the follow-up period, women were engaging in further treatment. Psychometric measures linked to treatment domains were used to explore clinically significant and reliable change following the intervention. Clinical and reliable change was indicated in some treatment domains for each participant following the intervention. The pattern of these reductions varied between the women. The patterns of findings are discussed and recommendations presented. Design/methodology/approach The methodology employed an AB baseline design with a six-month baseline period, nine-month treatment period and six-month follow-up. Levels of direct and indirect aggression were recorded throughout the baseline, intervention and follow-up period. In the follow-up period, women were engaging in further treatment. Psychometric measures linked to treatment domains were used to explore clinically significant and reliable change following the intervention. Findings Clinical and reliable change was indicated in some treatment domains for each participant following the intervention. The pattern of these reductions varied between the female offenders. The patterns of findings are discussed and recommendations presented. Practical implications The LMV-E programme was associated with some positive improvements in treatment domains measured in a small sample of female violent offenders. Improvements to some degree were most commonly found in the domains of anger, emotional control and components of criminal thinking. It would be clinically useful to examine characteristics of individuals that appear to benefit most from particular interventions. Originality/value There are no existing published findings related to the implementation of LMV-E with females. Therefore, this paper provides preliminary contribution to the evidence base in this area.

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The General Aggression Model and Its Application to Violent Offender Assessment and Treatment

Cited by 12 publications

References 40 publications

Helping and hurting others: Person and situation effects on aggressive and prosocial behavior as assessed by the Tangram task

Helping and hurting others: Person and situation effects on aggressive and prosocial behavior as assessed by the Tangram task

Cognitive Control Processes and Defense Mechanisms That Influence Aggressive Reactions: Toward an Integration of Socio-Cognitive and Psychodynamic Models of Aggression

Life Minus Violence-Enhanced (LMV-E) with women in custody: single-case experimental design

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