Background For adolescents growing up in poor urban South African settings, violence is
often a part of daily life and has lasting effects on physical and mental health outcomes in …

Rules form an important part of our everyday lives. Here we explore the role of social
influence in rule-breaking. In particular, we identify some of the cognitive mechanisms …

Objectives: This article investigates how situational dynamics influence the emergence of
protest violence. Although common-sense explanations of violence focus on actors' …

Rage is under-theorised in South Africa. This absence is more pronounced in psychological
scholarship. This is a remarkable oversight since we have gained infamy as the world's …

Names: Gottzén, Lucas, editor.| Bjørnholt, Margunn, 1958–editor.| Boonzaier, Floretta, editor.
Title: Men, masculinities and intimate partner violence/Lucas Gottzén, Margunn Bjørnholt …

Objective: Recent studies show that violence is difficult to accomplish and only occurs under
particular situational circumstances—but does this also apply to protests in authoritarian …

The sociology of violence has undergone a tremendous change over the past 10 years,
increasingly arguing that situational factors are key to violence emergence, rather than …

Sexual violence among men who have sex with men (MSM) is prevalent in developing
countries and is associated with increased HIV/STI risk. Despite high HIV prevalence (20%) …

Exposure to violence can lead to appetitive aggression (AA), the positive feeling and
fascination associated with violence, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) …

This article reports on a study that tests whether concepts from the myth of redemptive
violence, constructed for describing social and political violence (Wink, 1992, 1998), fit …