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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Dietary interventions, the gut microbiome, and aggressive behavior: Review of research evidence and potential next steps	47
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Sadism in the context of intergroup aggression	34
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Understanding the moral cognition of aggression: Longitudinal serial effects of personal relative deprivation and hostility on within‐person changes in civic moral disengagement	23
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Parental Conflict and Adolescents' Aggressive Behavior in China: The Mediating Role of Poor Family Functioning	20
In search of the origins of crime continuity: Aggressive versus nonaggressive delinquency as a key factor in the psychological inertia process	20
Predicting aggressive behaviors: Examining unique and interactive roles of PTSD and emotion dysregulation in a minority sample	19
Dyadic effects of minority stress and problematic alcohol use on sexual intimate partner violence in same sex couples	18
Exploring changes in violence across two waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Richmond, VA	18
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Traditional and cyber dating violence among adolescents: Profiles, prevalence, and short‐term associations with peer violence	17
Neuronal Nuclei That Are Activated After an Offensive Encounter in Female Djungarian Hamster (Phodopus campbelli)	15
Dispositional mindfulness plays a major role in adolescents' active and passive responding to bully‐victim dynamics	15
A Diathesis‐Stress Approach to Understanding Partner Maltreatment Perpetration: A Longitudinal Study	14
Risk and protective factors in risk assessment: Predicting inpatient aggression in adult males detained in a forensic mental health setting	13
Measuring sexual violence perpetration acknowledgment: Testing the effects of label and response format	13
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Sexual Aggression and Victimization Among Adolescents in School: Using a MixIRT Analysis to Examine Measurement Equivalence	12
Aggressive behaviors predict greater intraindividual reaction time variability in children: Evidence from cross‐lagged panel models	11
Weakened sympathetic response and lower parasympathetic activity in intimate partner violence perpetrators when empathizing: Influence of autonomous activation in affective approach and prosocial beha	11
Best Practice Procedures in Longitudinal Research of Violent Media Effects: Reanalysis of the Lacko et al. (2024) Study as a Case Study	10
Peer relations and friendships in early childhood: The association with peer victimization	10
The role of oxytocin receptor gene variants in appetitive aggression: A study in a South African male sample	9

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The link between anger and reactive aggression: Insights into anger rumination	9
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Capturing mechanisms of change: Weekly covariation in anger regulation, hostile intent attribution, and children's aggression	8
Head start parents' vocational preparedness indirectly predicts preschoolers' physical and relational aggression	8
Unacknowledged and missed cases of sexual victimization: A comparison of responses to broad versus behaviorally specific questions	8
Toxic behaviors in online multiplayer games: Prevalence, perception, risk factors of victimization, and psychological consequences	8
Brief report: Social comparison, hypercompetitiveness, and indirect aggression: Associations with loneliness and mental health	8
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Spanish adaptation and validation of the Dula Dangerous Driving Index (DDDI)	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
Love withdrawal use by toddlers: Multi‐informant associations with aggression and parents' use of love withdrawal	7
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Parental control and bullying: Variable‐centered and person‐centered approaches	7
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Interactive effects of mindfulness and negative urgency on intimate partner aggression perpetration	6
Aggressiveness in a subtropical shorebird's nest defense is adjusted to the predator species and shared by conspecifics	6
The interplay between popularity and aggression in adolescence: Focusing the lens on sense of power and prestige	6
Mental health outcomes of physical, sexual, and psychological intimate partner violence among women in Turkey: A latent class study	6
Aloneliness predicts relational anger and aggression toward romantic partners	6
Provoked and unprovoked aggression in toddlerhood: Evaluating measurement invariance and latent means across gender, age, and time	6
Thinking through situations: The mediating role of rumination in the relationship between need for cognition and aggression	6
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Psychosocial factors as predictors of aggressive behaviors among primary school learners	5
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“Consumed by creed”: Obsessive‐compulsive symptoms underpin ideological obsession and support for political violence	5
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Attachment anxiety and the dark triad increase stalking after breakups of romantic relationships through psychological maltreatment of romantic partners and reactions to breakups	5
Violence exposure across multiple contexts as predictors of reactive and proactive aggression in Chinese preadolescents	5
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No mercy for victims: Exploring the link between dark personality traits, aggressive video game behavior, and severe traffic violations	5
Aggressiveness, inhibitory control, and emotional states: A provocation paradigm	5
Discordant and Concordant Heavy Drinking and Other Drug Use Patterns and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration	5
Childhood maltreatment: The role of concurrent advantageous experiences on adolescents' psychosocial adjustment	5
Bidirectional Relationships Between Peer Defending and Social Status in Elementary and High School Students	5
Retraction statement: Effects of cartoon violence on aggressive thoughts and aggressive behaviors	5
Evaluating the function and psychometric properties of a violence risk screening tool in a community sample of adolescents	5
Cognitive distortions mediate relationships between early maladaptive schemas and aggression in women and men	5
Learning to cyberbully: Longitudinal relations between cyberbullying attitudes and perpetration and the moderating influence of participant sex: A brief report	5
Reduced attention toward faces, intentionality and blame ascription in violent offenders and community‐based adults: Evidence from an eye‐tracking study	5
Can classroom seating arrangements help establish a safe environment for victims? A randomized controlled trial	4
Predictors of sexual aggression among gay men and lesbian women: An application of Malamuth's confluence model	4
Aggression by omission: Redefining and measuring an understudied construct	4
Violent video game exposure and bullying perpetration among Chinese adolescents: The moderating role of belief in a just world	4
Perpetration of Adolescent Dating Violence: Child Abuse, Attitudes, Impulsivity, Reactive and Proactive Aggression; Automatic or Complex Processes?	4
Spillover and crossover effects of exposure to work‐related aggression and adversities: A dyadic diary study	4
Examining the role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in intimate partner violence among couples with alcohol use disorder	4

Exploring the effect of ADHD traits on the moment‐to‐moment interplay between provocation and aggression: Evidence from dynamic structural equation modeling	4
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Who Considers Terrorism Justifiable? A Machine Learning Analysis Across 65 Countries	4
Caregiving Environmental Risk and Aggression From Infancy to Adolescence in a High‐Risk Sample: An Examination of Between‐Family and Within‐Family Effects	3
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Thinking through the social world: Further exploring the direct, moderated, and mediated relationship between need for cognition and aggression	3
Relational model of relative deprivation, revenge, and cyberbullying: A three‐time longitudinal study	3
Are mindful people less aggressive? The role of emotion regulation in the relations between mindfulness and aggression	3
Multidimensional profiles of Head Start children's social behaviors predict their interpretations of physical aggression	3
The link between exposure to violent media, normative beliefs about aggression, self‐control, and aggression: A comparison of traditional and cyberbullying	3
Evolutionarily relevant aggressive functions: Differentiating competitive, impression management, sadistic and reactive motives	3
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Temporal relation between pubertal development and peer victimization in a prospective sample of US adolescents	3
Homicide as the first conviction: A retrospective cohort study	3
Modeling state‐ and trait‐level associations between aggression, somatic symptoms, substance use, and distress tolerance	3
Longitudinal Effects of Peer Rejection on Reactive/Proactive Aggression: Risk Accumulation or Cognitive Dissonance?	3
How Spiteful Are We? Validation of the Spitefulness Scale in Spaniards	3
The Role of Visual and Chemosensory Signals in Male–Male Aggression of the Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni	3
The longitudinal relation between violence exposure in daily life, hostile automatic thoughts, and cyber‐aggression	3
Violent Video Game Play and (De)Sensitization to Threat	3
Development of a measure of aggressive behavior expectancies in adults: The Aggression Expectancy Questionnaire	3
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Peer correlates of conduct problems in girls	3
Demand‐avoid‐withdraw processes in adolescent dating aggression	3
Low Power and High Psychopathy: A Toxic Combination for Psychological Aggression	3
The developmental characteristics of proactive and reactive aggression in late childhood: The effect of parental control	3
Comparing behavioral measures of aggression in the laboratory: Taylor Aggression Paradigm versus Point‐Subtraction Aggression Paradigm	3
The effect of justified video game violence on aggressive behavior and moderated immersion: An experimental approach	3
Superhero media, aggression, and prosocialness: Relations in adults and gender's moderating role	2
Approach‐avoidance tendencies in proactive and reactive aggression	2
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When strength is a weakness	2
Narcissists Facing Social Media Feedback: Activated Emotions and Subsequent Aggressive and Prosocial Behaviors	2
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Relations between perceptions of parental messages supporting fighting and nonviolence and adolescents' physical aggression: Beliefs as mediators	2
Violent and prosocial music: Evidence for the impact of lyrics and musical tone on aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors	2
Beyond Eyeball Tests: A Methodical Rebuttal to Fillon et al.'s Commentary	2
Assessment of hostile intent attributions across escalating conflict stories	2
Adolescent risk and protection profiles for violence perpetration: Insights for family‐ and community‐based prevention	2
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Peer‐Aggression Victimization and Perpetration in Middle School Youth: Estimating Prevalence and Frequency, Joint Trajectory Patterns, and Predictive Utility	2
Dropout and recidivism are partly explained by emotional decoding and perspective taking deficits of intimate partner violence perpetrators	2
Violent attitudes in Portugal and Canada: Measurement invariance and psychometric properties of the Evaluation of Violence Questionnaire	2
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Individual and contextual‐level predictors of progression in the bystander intervention model	2
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Aggression, Suicidality, and Emotion Profiles in Youth: Links to Early Life Adversity	2