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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Sadism in the context of intergroup aggression	69
Understanding the moral cognition of aggression: Longitudinal serial effects of personal relative deprivation and hostility on within‐person changes in civic moral disengagement	29
Dietary interventions, the gut microbiome, and aggressive behavior: Review of research evidence and potential next steps	26
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“Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”: The Role of Animal Category in Judgments of Sadistic Harm	20
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Exploring changes in violence across two waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Richmond, VA	18
Predicting aggressive behaviors: Examining unique and interactive roles of PTSD and emotion dysregulation in a minority sample	16
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Parental Conflict and Adolescents' Aggressive Behavior in China: The Mediating Role of Poor Family Functioning	16
Dyadic effects of minority stress and problematic alcohol use on sexual intimate partner violence in same sex couples	14
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In search of the origins of crime continuity: Aggressive versus nonaggressive delinquency as a key factor in the psychological inertia process	13
Traditional and cyber dating violence among adolescents: Profiles, prevalence, and short‐term associations with peer violence	13
Neuronal Nuclei That Are Activated After an Offensive Encounter in Female Djungarian Hamster ( Phodopus campbelli )	12
A Diathesis‐Stress Approach to Understanding Partner Maltreatment Perpetration: A Longitudinal Study	11
Dispositional mindfulness plays a major role in adolescents' active and passive responding to bully‐victim dynamics	10
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Measuring sexual violence perpetration acknowledgment: Testing the effects of label and response format	10
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Sexual Aggression and Victimization Among Adolescents in School: Using a MixIRT Analysis to Examine Measurement Equivalence	9
Aggressive behaviors predict greater intraindividual reaction time variability in children: Evidence from cross‐lagged panel models	9
Best Practice Procedures in Longitudinal Research of Violent Media Effects: Reanalysis of the Lacko et al. (2024) Study as a Case Study	9
Interventions for Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews	9
Risk and protective factors in risk assessment: Predicting inpatient aggression in adult males detained in a forensic mental health setting	9
Weakened sympathetic response and lower parasympathetic activity in intimate partner violence perpetrators when empathizing: Influence of autonomous activation in affective approach and prosocial beha	9

The role of oxytocin receptor gene variants in appetitive aggression: A study in a South African male sample	8
The link between anger and reactive aggression: Insights into anger rumination	8
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Unacknowledged and missed cases of sexual victimization: A comparison of responses to broad versus behaviorally specific questions	7
Parental control and bullying: Variable‐centered and person‐centered approaches	7
Brief report: Social comparison, hypercompetitiveness, and indirect aggression: Associations with loneliness and mental health	7
Provoked and unprovoked aggression in toddlerhood: Evaluating measurement invariance and latent means across gender, age, and time	7
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Commentary on “Consumed by Creed”	7
Love withdrawal use by toddlers: Multi‐informant associations with aggression and parents' use of love withdrawal	7
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Spanish adaptation and validation of the Dula Dangerous Driving Index (DDDI)	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
The interplay between popularity and aggression in adolescence: Focusing the lens on sense of power and prestige	7
Thinking through situations: The mediating role of rumination in the relationship between need for cognition and aggression	7
Aloneliness predicts relational anger and aggression toward romantic partners	6
“Consumed by creed”: Obsessive‐compulsive symptoms underpin ideological obsession and support for political violence	6
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Cognitive distortions mediate relationships between early maladaptive schemas and aggression in women and men	6
Mental health outcomes of physical, sexual, and psychological intimate partner violence among women in Turkey: A latent class study	6
Bullying Profiles and Co‐Rumination: A Latent Transition Analysis in Adolescents	6
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Evaluating the function and psychometric properties of a violence risk screening tool in a community sample of adolescents	6
Interactive effects of mindfulness and negative urgency on intimate partner aggression perpetration	6
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Bidirectional Relationships Between Peer Defending and Social Status in Elementary and High School Students	6
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Retraction statement: Effects of cartoon violence on aggressive thoughts and aggressive behaviors	5
Discordant and Concordant Heavy Drinking and Other Drug Use Patterns and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration	5
Perpetration of Adolescent Dating Violence: Child Abuse, Attitudes, Impulsivity, Reactive and Proactive Aggression; Automatic or Complex Processes?	5
Spillover and crossover effects of exposure to work‐related aggression and adversities: A dyadic diary study	5
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Psychosocial factors as predictors of aggressive behaviors among primary school learners	5
Aggressiveness, inhibitory control, and emotional states: A provocation paradigm	5
Learning to cyberbully: Longitudinal relations between cyberbullying attitudes and perpetration and the moderating influence of participant sex: A brief report	5
Childhood maltreatment: The role of concurrent advantageous experiences on adolescents' psychosocial adjustment	5
No mercy for victims: Exploring the link between dark personality traits, aggressive video game behavior, and severe traffic violations	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
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Predictors of sexual aggression among gay men and lesbian women: An application of Malamuth's confluence model	4
Modeling state‐ and trait‐level associations between aggression, somatic symptoms, substance use, and distress tolerance	4
Violent video game exposure and bullying perpetration among Chinese adolescents: The moderating role of belief in a just world	4
Aggression by omission: Redefining and measuring an understudied construct	4
Exploring the effect of ADHD traits on the moment‐to‐moment interplay between provocation and aggression: Evidence from dynamic structural equation modeling	4
Can classroom seating arrangements help establish a safe environment for victims? A randomized controlled trial	4
Who Considers Terrorism Justifiable? A Machine Learning Analysis Across 65 Countries	4

Examining the role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in intimate partner violence among couples with alcohol use disorder	4
The developmental characteristics of proactive and reactive aggression in late childhood: The effect of parental control	4
Development of a measure of aggressive behavior expectancies in adults: The Aggression Expectancy Questionnaire	3
Temporal relation between pubertal development and peer victimization in a prospective sample of US adolescents	3
The Role of Visual and Chemosensory Signals in Male–Male Aggression of the Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni	3
The effect of justified video game violence on aggressive behavior and moderated immersion: An experimental approach	3
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Violent Video Game Play and (De)Sensitization to Threat	3
Violent attitudes in Portugal and Canada: Measurement invariance and psychometric properties of the Evaluation of Violence Questionnaire	3
Comparing behavioral measures of aggression in the laboratory: Taylor Aggression Paradigm versus Point‐Subtraction Aggression Paradigm	3
How Spiteful Are We? Validation of the Spitefulness Scale in Spaniards	3
The link between exposure to violent media, normative beliefs about aggression, self‐control, and aggression: A comparison of traditional and cyberbullying	3
Thinking through the social world: Further exploring the direct, moderated, and mediated relationship between need for cognition and aggression	3
Multidimensional profiles of Head Start children's social behaviors predict their interpretations of physical aggression	3
Relational model of relative deprivation, revenge, and cyberbullying: A three‐time longitudinal study	3
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Relations between perceptions of parental messages supporting fighting and nonviolence and adolescents' physical aggression: Beliefs as mediators	3
Longitudinal Effects of Peer Rejection on Reactive/Proactive Aggression: Risk Accumulation or Cognitive Dissonance?	3
The longitudinal relation between violence exposure in daily life, hostile automatic thoughts, and cyber‐aggression	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
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Demand‐avoid‐withdraw processes in adolescent dating aggression	3
Peer correlates of conduct problems in girls	3
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Approach‐avoidance tendencies in proactive and reactive aggression	3
Homicide as the first conviction: A retrospective cohort study	3
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Superhero media, aggression, and prosocialness: Relations in adults and gender's moderating role	2
Aggression, Suicidality, and Emotion Profiles in Youth: Links to Early Life Adversity	2
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Longitudinal predictors of weapon involvement in middle adolescence: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study	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
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
When strength is a weakness	2
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Narcissists Facing Social Media Feedback: Activated Emotions and Subsequent Aggressive and Prosocial Behaviors	2
Applying a bifactor model to the functions of relational aggression: Associations with hostile attribution biases and difficulties with emotion regulation	2
Individual and contextual‐level predictors of progression in the bystander intervention model	2
Violent and prosocial music: Evidence for the impact of lyrics and musical tone on aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors	2
Low Power and High Psychopathy: A Toxic Combination for Psychological Aggression	2
Adolescent risk and protection profiles for violence perpetration: Insights for family‐ and community‐based prevention	2
Beyond Eyeball Tests: A Methodical Rebuttal to Fillon et al.'s Commentary	2
Assessment of hostile intent attributions across escalating conflict stories	2
Development and validation of the Forms and Functions of Aggressive Behavior Scale	2