Aggressive Motivation

An Introduction and Overview

Harmon-Jones, Eddie
Schutter, Dennis J. L. G.

School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales
Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University

Dennis J. L. G. Schutter is supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO, VI.C.181.005), and Eddie Harmon-Jones is supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council (DP210102351).

Eddie Harmon-Jones, School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney NSW 2052, Australia [email protected]

Received February 27, 2022

Accepted March 2, 2022

Motivation Science 8(2):p 77-80, June 2022. | DOI: 10.1037/mot0000266

This article introduces a special issue on Aggressive Motivation. After briefly considering some important concepts and definitions in the psychological study of aggression and aggressive motivation, this article provides short summaries of the 8 contributions to this special issue. These articles focus on contemporary theory and research, and they come from a wide array of theoretical and methodological approaches in biological, developmental, social, personality, and clinical psychology.