Disposed to aggress?: In search of the violence-prone personality

The heritability, cross-situational consistency min cross-temporal stabilit y of aggressive behavior is examined in an effort to assess the logical, pr actical, and empirical utility of the violence-p rone personality. For reas ons of conceptual obscurity, circular reasoning, labeling, and negation of process, the concept of a violence-prone personality is rejected in favor o f several more specific processes (i.e., Person x Situation interaction, su rvival strategies, psychological adjustment, the motivation to avoid change , implicit personality theories, systemic reinforcement of behavior, enviro nmental stability, methodological issues). Published by Elsevier Science Lt d.