Male mice become aggressive after watching peers fight. The amygdala drives this effect, showing how social context ...

A new study shows that observing violence can make individuals more likely to act aggressively later, but the effect depends on familiarity.

Aggression can be contagious, suggests new research. People who repeatedly observe aggressive behavior have a higher ...

Some parents might think letting their toddler on TikTok isn’t that bad, but a new study has found that early exposure to the ...

Alcohol's ability to increase people's pain threshold is one reason that drinking also leads to more aggressive behavior, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the less pain that study ...

Prenatal exposure to cannabis makes a child more likely to be aggressive and lack inhibitions, according to university doctors in Canada and the US. Five-year-olds whose mothers smoked ...

A mouse Purkinje cell injected with fluorescent dye. Source: Cell Centered Database/Wikimedia Researchers at Harvard Medical School recently used state-of-the-art optogenetic methods to investigate ...

With recent worry about mass shootings and gun violence in the U.S., one of the questions that always comes up is whether violent media promotes violent or aggressive behavior. This is something that ...