Human Aggression and Violence: Causes, Manifestations, and Consequences (The Herzliya Series on Personality and Social Psychology)
Phillip R. Shaver, PhD,a social and personality psychologist, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Before moving there, he served on the faculties of Columbia University, New York University, University of Denver, and State University of New York at Buffalo.He has coauthored and coedited numerous books, includingIn Search of Intimacy;Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes;Measures of Political Attitudes;Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications, andAttachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change, and has published over 200 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.Dr. Shaver's research focuses on attachment, human motivation and emotion, close relationships, personality development, and the effects of meditation on behavior and the brain.He is a member of the editorial boards ofAttachment and Human Development,Personal Relationships, theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, andEmotion, and has served on grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.He has been executive officer of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and is a fellow of both APA and the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Shaver received a Distinguished Career Award from the International Association for Relationship Research and has served as president of that organization.Mario Mikulincer, PhD,is professor of psychology and dean of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He has published three books--Human Helplessness: A Coping Perspective;Dynamics of Romantic Love: Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex; andAttachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change--and over 280 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.Dr. Mikulincer's main research interests are attachment theory, terror management theory, personality processes in interpersonal relationships, coping with stress and trauma, grief-related processes, and prosocial motives and behavior.He is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology,Psychological Inquiry, andPersonality and Social Psychology Review, and has served as associate editor of two journals, theJournal of Personality and Social PsychologyandPersonal Relationships. Recently, he was elected to serve as chief editor of theJournal of Social and Personal Relationships.He is a fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Association for Psychological Sciences. He received the EMET Prize in Social Science for his contributions to psychology and the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research.