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Papers

(The median citation count of Aggressive Behavior is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Sadism in the context of intergroup aggression	75
Understanding the moral cognition of aggression: Longitudinal serial effects of personal relative deprivation and hostility on within‐person changes in civic moral disengagement	27
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Dietary interventions, the gut microbiome, and aggressive behavior: Review of research evidence and potential next steps	20
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“Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”: The Role of Animal Category in Judgments of Sadistic Harm	19
Predicting aggressive behaviors: Examining unique and interactive roles of PTSD and emotion dysregulation in a minority sample	17
Exploring changes in violence across two waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Richmond, VA	17
Dyadic effects of minority stress and problematic alcohol use on sexual intimate partner violence in same sex couples	15
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Parental Conflict and Adolescents' Aggressive Behavior in China: The Mediating Role of Poor Family Functioning	14
Traditional and cyber dating violence among adolescents: Profiles, prevalence, and short‐term associations with peer violence	13
In search of the origins of crime continuity: Aggressive versus nonaggressive delinquency as a key factor in the psychological inertia process	13
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Measuring sexual violence perpetration acknowledgment: Testing the effects of label and response format	11
A Diathesis‐Stress Approach to Understanding Partner Maltreatment Perpetration: A Longitudinal Study	11
Neuronal Nuclei That Are Activated After an Offensive Encounter in Female Djungarian Hamster ( Phodopus campbelli )	11
Dispositional mindfulness plays a major role in adolescents' active and passive responding to bully‐victim dynamics	11
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Sexual Aggression and Victimization Among Adolescents in School: Using a MixIRT Analysis to Examine Measurement Equivalence	10
Risk and protective factors in risk assessment: Predicting inpatient aggression in adult males detained in a forensic mental health setting	9
Interventions for Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews	9
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Aggressive behaviors predict greater intraindividual reaction time variability in children: Evidence from cross‐lagged panel models	9
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The link between anger and reactive aggression: Insights into anger rumination	8
Weakened sympathetic response and lower parasympathetic activity in intimate partner violence perpetrators when empathizing: Influence of autonomous activation in affective approach and prosocial beha	8
The role of oxytocin receptor gene variants in appetitive aggression: A study in a South African male sample	8
Brief report: Social comparison, hypercompetitiveness, and indirect aggression: Associations with loneliness and mental health	8
Best Practice Procedures in Longitudinal Research of Violent Media Effects: Reanalysis of the Lacko et al. (2024) Study as a Case Study	8
Love withdrawal use by toddlers: Multi‐informant associations with aggression and parents' use of love withdrawal	8
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Parental control and bullying: Variable‐centered and person‐centered approaches	7
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The interplay between popularity and aggression in adolescence: Focusing the lens on sense of power and prestige	7
Commentary on “Consumed by Creed”	7
Direct and indirect effects of social dominance orientation on hate speech perpetration via empathy and moral disengagement among adolescents: A multilevel mediation model	7
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Interactive effects of mindfulness and negative urgency on intimate partner aggression perpetration	7
Spanish adaptation and validation of the Dula Dangerous Driving Index (DDDI)	7
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Mental health outcomes of physical, sexual, and psychological intimate partner violence among women in Turkey: A latent class study	7
Provoked and unprovoked aggression in toddlerhood: Evaluating measurement invariance and latent means across gender, age, and time	7
“Consumed by creed”: Obsessive‐compulsive symptoms underpin ideological obsession and support for political violence	6
The Independent and Combined Roles of Attentional and Interpretative Biases in Antisocial Behavior, Trait Aggression and Aggressive Responses Under Provocation	6
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Thinking through situations: The mediating role of rumination in the relationship between need for cognition and aggression	6
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Evaluating the function and psychometric properties of a violence risk screening tool in a community sample of adolescents	6
Bullying Profiles and Co‐Rumination: A Latent Transition Analysis in Adolescents	6
Bidirectional Relationships Between Peer Defending and Social Status in Elementary and High School Students	6
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Cognitive distortions mediate relationships between early maladaptive schemas and aggression in women and men	6
Childhood maltreatment: The role of concurrent advantageous experiences on adolescents' psychosocial adjustment	5
Aggressiveness, inhibitory control, and emotional states: A provocation paradigm	5
Attachment anxiety and the dark triad increase stalking after breakups of romantic relationships through psychological maltreatment of romantic partners and reactions to breakups	5
Online Media Characteristics of Cyberbullying: A Meta‐Analysis	5
Exploring the effect of ADHD traits on the moment‐to‐moment interplay between provocation and aggression: Evidence from dynamic structural equation modeling	5
Psychosocial factors as predictors of aggressive behaviors among primary school learners	5
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Predictors of sexual aggression among gay men and lesbian women: An application of Malamuth's confluence model	5
No mercy for victims: Exploring the link between dark personality traits, aggressive video game behavior, and severe traffic violations	5
Discordant and Concordant Heavy Drinking and Other Drug Use Patterns and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration	5
Learning to cyberbully: Longitudinal relations between cyberbullying attitudes and perpetration and the moderating influence of participant sex: A brief report	5
Who Considers Terrorism Justifiable? A Machine Learning Analysis Across 65 Countries	5
Perpetration of Adolescent Dating Violence: Child Abuse, Attitudes, Impulsivity, Reactive and Proactive Aggression; Automatic or Complex Processes?	5
Examining the role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in intimate partner violence among couples with alcohol use disorder	4
Modeling state‐ and trait‐level associations between aggression, somatic symptoms, substance use, and distress tolerance	4
Thinking through the social world: Further exploring the direct, moderated, and mediated relationship between need for cognition and aggression	4
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Spillover and crossover effects of exposure to work‐related aggression and adversities: A dyadic diary study	4

Violent video game exposure and bullying perpetration among Chinese adolescents: The moderating role of belief in a just world	4
The developmental characteristics of proactive and reactive aggression in late childhood: The effect of parental control	4
The Bidirectional Relationship Between Bullying Perpetration/Victimization and Peer Relationships: Evidence From a Weekly Diary Method	4
Temporal relation between pubertal development and peer victimization in a prospective sample of US adolescents	4
Aggression by omission: Redefining and measuring an understudied construct	4
Can classroom seating arrangements help establish a safe environment for victims? A randomized controlled trial	4
Demand‐avoid‐withdraw processes in adolescent dating aggression	4
The link between exposure to violent media, normative beliefs about aggression, self‐control, and aggression: A comparison of traditional and cyberbullying	4
Analytical Robustness and Competing Interpretations in Violent Video Game Research: A Response to Teng and Bushman's (2026) Reanalysis of Lacko et al. (2024)	4
Multidimensional profiles of Head Start children's social behaviors predict their interpretations of physical aggression	3
How Spiteful Are We? Validation of the Spitefulness Scale in Spaniards	3
Rethinking Longitudinal Studies of Media Violence and Aggression: A Rejoinder to Lacko et al.'s (2026) Comment	3
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Homicide as the first conviction: A retrospective cohort study	3
Comparing behavioral measures of aggression in the laboratory: Taylor Aggression Paradigm versus Point‐Subtraction Aggression Paradigm	3
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Development of a measure of aggressive behavior expectancies in adults: The Aggression Expectancy Questionnaire	3
The Role of Visual and Chemosensory Signals in Male–Male Aggression of the Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni	3
Relational model of relative deprivation, revenge, and cyberbullying: A three‐time longitudinal study	3
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The effect of justified video game violence on aggressive behavior and moderated immersion: An experimental approach	3
Caregiving Environmental Risk and Aggression From Infancy to Adolescence in a High‐Risk Sample: An Examination of Between‐Family and Within‐Family Effects	3
Approach‐avoidance tendencies in proactive and reactive aggression	3
Peer correlates of conduct problems in girls	3
The longitudinal relation between violence exposure in daily life, hostile automatic thoughts, and cyber‐aggression	3
Longitudinal Effects of Peer Rejection on Reactive/Proactive Aggression: Risk Accumulation or Cognitive Dissonance?	3
An Evolutionary Perspective on Bullying and Social Power: The Roles of Cooperation and Manipulation	3
Violent Video Game Play and (De)Sensitization to Threat	3
Violent and prosocial music: Evidence for the impact of lyrics and musical tone on aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors	2
Violent attitudes in Portugal and Canada: Measurement invariance and psychometric properties of the Evaluation of Violence Questionnaire	2
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Applying a bifactor model to the functions of relational aggression: Associations with hostile attribution biases and difficulties with emotion regulation	2
Narcissists Facing Social Media Feedback: Activated Emotions and Subsequent Aggressive and Prosocial Behaviors	2
Adolescent risk and protection profiles for violence perpetration: Insights for family‐ and community‐based prevention	2
Dropout and recidivism are partly explained by emotional decoding and perspective taking deficits of intimate partner violence perpetrators	2
Peer‐Aggression Victimization and Perpetration in Middle School Youth: Estimating Prevalence and Frequency, Joint Trajectory Patterns, and Predictive Utility	2
Aggression, Suicidality, and Emotion Profiles in Youth: Links to Early Life Adversity	2
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Assessment of hostile intent attributions across escalating conflict stories	2
The Role of Classroom Collective Efficacy and Self‐Concept in Peer Relationship and Victimization of Elementary School Students: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Analysis	2
Risks and Protective Factors Associated to Homophobic Cyberbullying Among Youth	2
Individual and contextual‐level predictors of progression in the bystander intervention model	2
Relations between perceptions of parental messages supporting fighting and nonviolence and adolescents' physical aggression: Beliefs as mediators	2
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Superhero media, aggression, and prosocialness: Relations in adults and gender's moderating role	2
Low Power and High Psychopathy: A Toxic Combination for Psychological Aggression	2
When strength is a weakness	2
Longitudinal Associations and Gender Differences of Parent–Child Relationships on Aggression in Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Psychological Suzhi	2
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Beyond Eyeball Tests: A Methodical Rebuttal to Fillon et al.'s Commentary	2
Longitudinal predictors of weapon involvement in middle adolescence: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study	2