Healthy Living: Mind, Body, Spirit, and Emotions in the 21st Century
Lloyd W. Davis is a scholar-practitioner studying the neurobiological and affective neuroscience of interpersonal aggression. Lloyd has conducted literaure reviews of the many biological, cognitive, and affective components of interpersonal aggression. Select papers are presented here. Please click on the title of a paper to download/read the full text of the paper (in PDF format).
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Cognitive Aspects of Interpersonal Aggression
Interpersonal aggression is a serious social problem that is at epidemic proportions around the globe. Research demonstrates that interpersonal aggression fits within the context of interpersonal neurobiology, an emerging field of interest among scientists and clinical specialists interested in human cognition, affect, and behavior. Attachment theory and practice, grounded more firmly in social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience provides us with new tools to understand the origins of interpersonal aggression. Recent advances in attachment theory provide insight into interpersonal aggression as a bio-psycho-social-cultural regulation problem. Advances in cognitive science provide helpful hints and suggestions for understanding, preventing, and treating this social problem.
Interpersonal neurobiology is an emerging scientific area of interest for researchers, mental health practitioners, and educators. This field relies on recent brain research and emphasizes the brain as a social organ built through experience. Brain structures involved in these findings teach a great deal about human potential through experience-dependent plasticity of neural systems that shape attachment and are shaped by attachment. This paper intends to outline major neural structures involved in social interactions and the paradigm shift employed by interpersonal neurobiology.
Interpersonal aggression is a serious social problem that has been around for a very long time. It has received a great amount of attention from many different disciplines in the past century. Social psychology addresses this problem directly using research methods grounded in biopsychology and empirical research. Up to date models addressing interpersonal aggression adds to our knowledge base and points toward future research and positive social change.