Aggression Research Program : Personnel : Investigators

AGGRESSION RESEARCH PROGRAM

Personnel

Investigators

	L. Rowell Huesmann, Director of the Aggression Research Program, is a Senior Research Professor in ISR and Amos N. Tversky Professor of Communication Studies and Psychology. In his own research, Huesmann focuses on the construction of cognitive/information processing models for explaining the learning of aggression. Two current aims for Huesmann are to elaborate the role of media violence in teaching violentbehavior and to find ways to prevent the development of aggression. Huesmann is also Editor of the Journal Aggressive Behavior.
	Brad J. Bushman, PhD, is a Faculty Associate at ISR and aProfessor of Communication Studies and Psychology. Much of his research has challenged societal myths about violence and aggression (e.g., violent media have a trivial effect on aggression, venting reduces anger and aggression, violent people suffer from low self-esteem, violence and sex on TV sell products, warning labels on TV programs reduce audience size).
	Eric F. Dubow, PhD, is an AdjunctResearch Scientist at ISR andProfessor ofPsychology at Bowling Green State University. His research interests include the development of risk and protective factors in children's adjustment, school-based intervention programs, and the development of aggression over time and across generations.
	Paul Boxer, PhD, is an Adjunct Research Scientist at ISR. He is also Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Newark campus of Rutgers University who collaborates on several research projects in the center. His own research interests center on the development, prevention, and treatment of aggressive and disruptive behavior in children and adolescents. Boxer is particularly concerned with the application of normative models of aggression to understanding and reducing this behavior among high-risk and seriously emotionally disturbed youth.
	Dara Greenwood, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and a Faculty Associate at ISR. Her current research focuses on media effects on behavior and the effects of parasocial identifications with media characters.
	Jeremy Ginges , PhD, is an Assistant Research Scientist at ISR,and an assitant professor at the New School of Social Research in New York City. He studies (a) how people manage to cooperate with members of different ethnic, national or religious groups and (b) why cooperation breaks down into violent conflict. A secondary research interest concerns the psycho-social consequences of exposure to political violence.