Cognitive and neuropsychological characteristics of physically aggressive boys
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Deficiencies in executive functioning are associated with physically aggressive characteristics in boys, and the performance of non-aggressive boys is better than that of stable and unstable aggressive boys. Executive functioning corresponds to proper attainment of goals. The association between physical aggression and executive functioning is stronger than any effect of verbal learning, cerebral dominance, and incidental spatial learning. Social factors were significantly correlated only with verbal learning.
Publication Name: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-843X
Year: 1995
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Cognitive function, cardiovascular reactivity, and behavior in boys at high risk for alcoholism
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Investigations on the cognitive function, behavior and cardiovascular reactivity in boys with an average age of 12.1 years reveals that the boys with high risks show poor performance in neuropsychological tests of frontal lobe function. These high-risk boys also exhibit enhanced peripheral vasoconstriction and heart rates. This cardiovascular reactivity is related to anxiety levels, while disruptive behavior correlates with the frontal lobe test scores.
Publication Name: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-843X
Year: 1995
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Pain sensitivity and stability of physical aggression in boys
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Stably aggressive adolescent boys with high proportion of self-reported delinquency show minimum pain sensitivity whereas the unstable aggressives show maximum pain sensitivity. At high levels of executive functioning, unstable aggressives report even more pain, while stable aggressives report even less pain. Boys having moderate level of family adversity show more pain. Enhancement in anxiety is related to increase in the pain sensitivity.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1996
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