People process social information in distinct cognitive steps before acting aggressively. These mental pathways differ ...

Parents buy toy guns for boys and dolls for girls. Parents are more willing to endorse and encourage the aggressive behavior of boys, and not of girls. Again and again, directly and indirectly, minors ...

Like humans, mice will compete over territory and mates, and show increased confidence in their fighting skills the more they win. At first, a brain chemical called dopamine is essential for young ...

For years, behavioral scientists theorized that a specific facial proportion signals aggression and dominance in men, but a ...

There's growing concern about the rise of harmful and aggressive forms of masculinity, whether at home, in schools or in public spaces. Parents, educators and researchers are increasingly interested ...

People who have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) who have a family history of mental illness may have a higher risk of aggression in middle age, according to a study published in the November 27 ...

A research group led by Joshua Neunuebel at the University of Delaware, USA, tracked the behavior of mice using machine learning to understand how they handle aggressive behavior from other mice. The ...