While social anxiety is often associated with quiet avoidance, a new study reveals that highly socially anxious people with self-centered traits are more likely to react to social threats with both ...

New genetic tools can switch on one neuron at a time, and one of them shuts down fruit fly aggression in both males and females.

Workplace aggression is a pervasive and highly damaging issue that costs organizations billions of dollars annually in lost productivity. Beyond financial losses, it fosters toxic workplace cultures, ...

People who repeatedly observe aggression have a higher likelihood of engaging in violent behavior later in life. In a new JNeurosci paper, Jacob Nordman and colleagues, from Southern University of ...

Researchers investigated why some individuals with high social anxiety react to social threats with hostility instead of avoidance. The study found that socially anxious people who also exhibit high ...

Passive aggression is a way of expressing negative feelings, such as anger or annoyance, indirectly instead of directly. Passive-aggressive behaviors are often difficult to identify and can sabotage ...

Mistreating a dog may come back to bite you. Scientists have long known that childhood abuse, neglect, and trauma can have lifelong consequences in humans. Now, a study by Harvard scientists links ...

From domestic violence to public rallies and terrorist acts, it's clear that anger, aggression and violence are widespread in society. Although these terms – anger, aggression, violence – are often ...

Aggression in dementia is a symptom, not a distinct stage, and its occurrence varies among people and dementia types. The duration of aggression in dementia is unpredictable, influenced by factors ...