The General Aggression Model: Theoretical Extensions to Violence
The General Aggression Model: Theoretical Extensions to Violence
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DOI：
10.1037/a0023842
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发表时间：
2011-07-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Bushman, Brad J.
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作者：
DeWall, C. Nathan;Anderson, Craig A.;Bushman, Brad J.
本文讨论了一般攻击模型（GAM），它为理解攻击和暴力提供了一个全面和综合的社会认知框架。在简要描述了GAM的基本组成部分后，我们讨论了如何使用它来更好地理解与主要发生在实验室外并适用于广泛人群的现象相关的4个主题。具体来说，我们应用GAM更好地了解亲密伴侣暴力，群体间暴力，全球气候变化对暴力的影响，和自杀。我们还解释了GAM的原则如何用于为旨在减少这些形式的暴力的干预措施提供信息。最后，我们展示了GAM如何解释为什么人们不表现出暴力行为，例如在暴力非常罕见的社会中。将GAM应用于实验室外发生的暴力行为增加了其解释力，并增强了其预测的外部有效性。由于这4个主题适用于如此广泛的人群，GAM可能在促进对这些领域的攻击性的理解方面具有更广泛的影响力。通过增加我们对暴力行为原因的理解，GAM可能有助于减少暴力行为。
This article discusses the General Aggression Model (GAM), which provides a comprehensive and integrative social-cognitive framework for understanding aggression and violence. After providing a brief description of the basic components of GAM, we discuss how it can be used to better understand 4 topics related to phenomena that occur primarily outside the laboratory and apply to a broad range of people. Specifically, we apply GAM to better understand intimate partner violence, intergroup violence, global climate change effects on violence, and suicide. We also explain how the tenets of GAM can be used to inform interventions aimed at reducing these forms of violence. Finally, we show how GAM can explain why people do not behave violently, such as in societies where violence is exceedingly rare. Applying GAM to violent behavior that occurs outside the laboratory adds to its explanatory power and enhances the external validity of its predictions. Because the 4 topics apply to such a broad range of people, GAM may have broader influence in fostering understanding of aggression in these domains. By increasing our understanding of the causes of violent behavior, GAM may help reduce it.