Description
We are examining the reactive and proactive functions of aggression, with a particular focus on children’s anger when enacting reactive aggression and the lack of emotion that characterizes children’s displays of proactive aggression. Recent emphases have included a) assessing children’s psychophysiology in-the-moment as they engage in reactive versus proactive aggression, and b) examining how children’s daily emotions relate to their reactive and proactive aggression.
Publications
Moore, C.C., Hubbard, J.A., Mlawer, F.M., Meehan, Z., & Bookhout, M.K. (2024). The role of changes in peer victimization from elementary to high school and autonomic reactivity on adolescent reactive aggression. Developmental Psychology. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1037/dev0001840 PDF
Hubbard, J.A., Moore, C.C., Zajac, L., Bookhout, M.K., & Dozier, M. (2023). Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood. Child Development, 94, 1017-1032. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13917. PDF
Hubbard, J.A., Moore, C.C., Zajac, L., Marano, E., Bookhout, M.K., & Dozier, M. (2023). The importance of both individual differences and dyadic processes in children’s emotion expression. Applied Developmental Science, 28, 193-206 . doi: 10.1080/10888691.2022.2163247 PDF
Morrow, M.T., Hubbard, J.A., Bookhout, M.K., Docimo, M.A., Swift, L.E., Grassetti, S.N., & Cabanas, K.L. (2022). Lower levels of classroom aggression predict stronger relations between peer victimization and reactive versus proactive aggression. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37, NP13182-NP13202. PDF
Bookhout, M.K., Hubbard, J.A., Zajac, L., Mlawer, F.M., & Moore, C.C. (2021). Validation of the Social Information Processing Application (SIP-AP) across genders, socioeconomic levels, and forms of aggression. Psychological Assessment, 33, 716-728. PDF
van Dijk, A., Hubbard, J.A., Deschamps, P.K.H., Hiemstra, W., & Polman, H. (2021). Do distinct groups of reactively and proactively aggressive children exist? A confirmatory latent profile approach. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49, 1303-1317. PDF
Moore, C.C., Hubbard, J.A., Bookhout, M.K., & Mlawer, F. (2019).Relations between reactive and proactive aggression and daily emotions in adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 1495-1507. PDF
Bookhout, M.K., Hubbard, J.A., & Moore, C.C. (2018). Emotion regulation. In J. E. Lochman & W. Matthys (Eds.), The Wiley handbook of disruptive and impulse-control disorders (pp. 221-236). New York: John Wiley and Sons. PDF
Moore, C.C., Hubbard, J.A., & Bookhout, M.K. (2018). Temperament and aggression. In T. Malti & K. Rubin (Eds.), Handbook of child and adolescent aggression: Emergence, development, and intervention (pp. 107-126). New York: Guilford. PDF
Moore, C.C., Hubbard, J.A., Morrow, M.T., Barhight, L.R., Lines, M.M., Sallee, M.L., & Hyde, C.T. (2018). The simultaneous assessment of and relations between children’s sympathetic and parasympathetic psychophysiology and their reactive and proactive aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 44, 614-623. PDF
Barhight, L.R., Hubbard, J.A., Swift, L.E., & Konold, T.R. (2017). A multimethod-multitrait approach to assessing childhood aggression and related constructs. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 63(3), 367-395. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., & Swift, L. E. (2013). Treatments for anger regulation and reactive aggression in young children. In E. Fernandez (Ed.), Treatments for anger in specific populations (pp. 197-212).New York: Oxford University Press. PDF
Smith, M., Hubbard, J. A., & Laurenceau, J-P. (2011). Profiles of anger control in second-grade children: Examination of self-report, observational, and physiological components. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110, 213-226. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., McAuliffe, M. D., Morrow, M. T., & Romano, L. J. (2010). Reactive and proactive aggression in childhood and adolescence: Outcomes, processes, experiences, and measurement. Journal of Personality, 78, 95-118. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., Morrow, M. T., Romano, L. J., & McAuliffe, M. D. (2010). The role of anger in children’s reactive versus proactive aggression: Review of findings, issues of measurement, and implications for intervention. In W. Arsenio & E. Lemerise (Eds.), Emotions, aggression, and morality in children: Bridging development and psychopathology (pp. 201-217). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., Romano, L. J., McAuliffe, M. D., & Morrow, M. T. (2010). Anger and the reactive-proactive aggression distinction in childhood and adolescence. In M. Potegal, G. Stemmler, & C. Spielberger (Eds.), International handbook of anger: Constituent and concomitant biological, psychological, and social processes (pp. 231-241). New York, NY: Springer. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., McAuliffe, M. D., Rubin, R. M., & Morrow, M. T. (2007). The anger-aggression relation in violent children and adolescents. In T. A. Cavell and K. T. Malcolm (Eds.), Anger, aggression, and interventions for interpersonal violence (pp. 267-280).Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. PDF
Kenny, D., West, T., Cillessen, A. H. N., Coie, J. D., Dodge, K. A., Hubbard, J. A., & Schwartz, D. (2007). Accuracy in judgments of aggressiveness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1225-1236. PDF
McAuliffe, M. D., Hubbard, J. A., Rubin, R. M., Morrow, M. T., & Dearing, K. F. (2006). Reactive and proactive aggression: Stability of constructs and relations to correlates. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 167, 365-382. PDF
Hubbard, J. A. (2005). Eliciting and measuring children’s anger in the context of their peer interactions: Ethical considerations and practical guidelines.Ethics and Behavior, 15, 247-258. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., & Dearing, K. F. (2004). Children’s understanding and regulation of emotion in the context of their peer relations. In J. B. Kupersmidt and K. A. Dodge (Eds.), Children’s peer relations: From development to intervention (pp. 81-99). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., Parker, E. H., Ramsden, S. R., Flanagan, K. D., Relyea, N., Dearing, K. F., Smithmyer, C. M., Simons, R. F., & Hyde, C. T. (2004). The relations between observational, physiological, and self-report measures of children’s anger. Social Development, 13, 14-39. PDF
Dearing, K. F., Hubbard, J. A., Ramsden, S. R., Parker, E. H., Flanagan, K. D., Relyea, N., & Smithmyer, C. M. (2002). Children’s self-reports about anger regulation: Direct and indirect links to social preference and aggression. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 48, 308-336. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., Smithmyer, C. M., Ramsden, S. R., Parker, E. H., Flanagan, K. D., Dearing, K. F., Relyea, N., & Simons, R. F. (2002). Observational, physiological, and self-report measures of children’s anger: Relations to reactive versus proactive aggression. Child Development, 73, 1101-1118. PDF
Ramsden, S. R., & Hubbard, J. A. (2002). Family expressiveness and parental emotion coaching: Their role in children’s emotion regulation and aggression. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 657-667. PDF
Hubbard, J. A. (2001). Emotion expression processes in children’s peer interaction: The role of peer rejection, aggression, and gender. Child Development, 72, 1426-1438. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., Dodge, K. A., Cillessen, A. H. N., Coie, J. D., & Schwartz, D. (2001). The dyadic nature of social information processing in boys’ reactive and proactive aggression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 268-280. PDF
Parker, E. H., Hubbard, J. A., Ramsden, S. R., Relyea, N., Dearing, K. F., Smithmyer, C. M., & Schimmel, K. D. (2001). Children’s use and knowledge of display rules for anger following hypothetical vignettes versus following live peer interaction. Social Development, 10, 528-557. PDF
Smithmyer, C. M., Hubbard, J. A., & Simons, R. F. (2000). Proactive and reactive aggression in delinquent adolescents: Relations to aggression outcome expectancies.Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 29, 86-93. PDF
Coie, J. D., Cillessen, A. H. N., Dodge, K. A., Hubbard, J. A., Schwartz, D., Lemerise, E. A., & Bateman, H. (1999). It takes two to fight: A test of relational factors and a method for assessing aggressive dyads. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1179-1188. PDF
Schwartz, D., Dodge, K. A., Coie, J. D., Hubbard, J. A., Cillessen, A. H. N., Lemerise, E. A., & Bateman, H. (1998). Social cognitive and behavioral correlates of subtypes of aggression and victimization in boys’ playgroups. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 26, 431-440. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., & Coie, J. D. (1994). Emotional determinants of social competence in children’s peer relationships. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 40, 1-20. PDF
Hubbard, J. A., & Newcomb, A. F. (1991). Initial dyadic peer interaction of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and normal boys. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 19, 179-195. PDF
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