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This volume is organized about two central themes; the experimental analysis of aggression, and the application of learning principles to the prevention and modification of delinquency. The chapters, all new and original, demonstrate how the problems of aggression, which have been interpreted in diverse ways, can be analyzed under controlled laboratory conditions. In addition, the contributors offer an explanation of how behavior modification techniques, derived from this knowledge, can be used for preventative purposes.
Because of the social nature of aggression and delinquency, behavior change techniques are principally aimed at modifying environmental influences. The contributions to this volume illustrate how behavioral scientists may aid in the understanding and amelioration of conditions that give rise to violence. (674 pgs)
This classic work presents basic psychological principles governing human behavior within the conceptual framework of social learning. Over the years an impressive body of knowledge about the mechanisms through which behavior is acquired and modified has been accumulated. But despite this vigorous growth of research on human behavior, a number of psychological processes that are highly influential in human functioning have been overlooked or only partially investigated. This volume reviews the theoretical and experimental advances in the field of social learning. It gives special emphasis to the important roles played by vicarious, symbolic, and self-regulatory processes, which receive relatively little notice even in most contemporary theories of behavior. (2012 pgs)
Bandura’s classic work applies social learning analysis to a broad range of aggressive phenomena including revolutions, urban strife, student protest movements, crime and delinquency, correctional systems, mass media effects, enforcement agencies, and individual forms of aggression. (1116 pgs)
