L Rowell Huesmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1661869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Rowell Huesmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | L Rowell |
| FAMILY NAME | Huesmann |
| SIGNATURE | HUESMANN L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3653-5272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 720 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Political violence exposure and youth aggression in the context of the social ecological systems and family stress models: A four-wave prospective study of Israeli and Palestinian youth
Based on the social ecological systems framework and the family stress model, we examine a model in which the family’s exposure to ethnic-political violence in the Middle East predicts negative family functioning, which in turn predicts subsequent harsh physical punishment toward one’s children, and in turn, children’s aggression by late adolescence/early adulthood. Beginning in 2007, we collected four waves of data from Israeli Jewish ( N = 451 …
Consequences of Exposure to War Violence: Discriminating Those with Heightened Risk for Aggression from Those with Heightened Risk for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms
Chronic exposure to ethnic-political and war violence has deleterious effects throughout childhood. Some youths exposed to war violence are more likely to act aggressively afterwards, and some are more likely to experience post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTS symptoms). However, the concordance of these two outcomes is not strong, and it is unclear what discriminates between those who are at more risk for one or the other. Drawing on prior researc…
Exposure to violence predicts callous‐unemotional traits and aggression in adolescence in the context of persistent ethnic‐political conflict and violence
According to social‐cognitive ecological theory, violence exposure increases emotional factors—such as callous‐unemotional (CU) traits—which then contribute to engagement in aggressive behavior. However, previous research has generally not tested this mediational pathway, particularly in the context of persistent ethnic‐political violence exposure. The present study examined associations among violence exposure, CU traits, and aggression in a sam…
Developmental Changes in the Relation between Youth Disclosure and Parenting Behavior: A Cohort-sequential Analysis
Longitudinal predictions of young adults' weapons use and criminal behavior from their childhood exposure to violence
In this study, we examine whether youth who are exposed to more weapons violence are subsequently more likely to behave violently with weapons. We use data collected with a 3‐cohort, 4‐wave, 10‐year longitudinal study of 426 high‐risk youth from Flint, Michigan, who were second, fourth, or ninth‐graders in 2006–2007. The data were obtained from individual interviews with the youth, their parents, and their teachers, from archival school and crimi…
Serious violent behavior and antisocial outcomes as consequences of exposure to ethnic‐political conflict and violence among Israeli and Palestinian youth
We examine whether cumulative-past and concurrent exposure to ethnic-political violence among Israeli and Palestinian youth predict serious violent behavior and antisocial outcomes toward the in-group and the out-group. We collected four waves of data from 162 Israeli Jewish and 400 Palestinian youths (three age cohorts: 8, 11, and 14 years old) and their parents. The first three waves were consecutive annual assessments, and the fourth was condu…
Anxiety, depression, and offending in the Columbia County longitudinal study: A prospective analysis from late adolescence to middle adulthood
Risk factors for youth violence: Youth violence commission, International Society For Research On Aggression (Isra)
The authors have no conflict of interest to disclose. Brad J. Bushman1 Sarah M. Coyne2 Craig A. Anderson3 Kaj Björkqvist4 Paul Boxer5 Kenneth A. Dodge6 Eric F. Dubow7 David P. Farrington8 Douglas A. Gentile9 L. Rowell Huesmann10 Jennifer E. Lansford6 Raymond W. Novaco11 Jamie M. Ostrov12 Marion K. Underwood13 Wayne A. Warburton14 Michele L. Ybarra15 1School of Communication, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 2Sch…
Childhood and adolescent risk and protective factors for violence in adulthood
The Longitudinal Effects of Chronic Mediated Exposure to Political Violence on Ideological Beliefs About Political Conflicts Among Youths
This study examines the effects of chronic (i.e., repeated and cumulative) mediated exposure to political violence on ideological beliefs regarding political conflict. It centers on these effects on young viewers, from preadolescents to adolescents. Ideological beliefs refers here to support of war, perception of threat to one's nation, and normative beliefs concerning aggression toward the out-group. A longitudinal study was conducted on a sampl…
Effects of Avatar Race in Violent Video Games on Racial Attitudes and Aggression
The media often link Black characters and violence. This is especially true in video games, in which Black male characters are virtually always violent. This research tested the effects of playing a violent game as a Black (vs. White) avatar on racial stereotypes and aggression. In Experiment 1, White participants ( N = 126) who played a violent video game as a Black avatar displayed stronger implicit and explicit negative attitudes toward Blacks…
Negative Stereotypes of Ethnic Outgroups: A Longitudinal Examination Among P alestinian, I sraeli J ewish, and I sraeli A rab Youth
Ethno-political conflict impacts thousands of youth globally and has been associated with a number of negative psychological outcomes. Extant literature has mostly addressed the adverse emotional and behavioral outcomes of exposure while failing to examine change over time in social-cognitive factors in contexts of ethno-political conflict. Using cohort-sequential longitudinal data, the present study examines ethnic variation in the development o…
Country, sex, and parent occupational status: Moderators of the continuity of aggression from childhood to adulthood
Using data from two American and one Finnish long-term longitudinal studies, we examined continuity of general aggression from age 8 to physical aggression in early adulthood (age 21-30) and whether continuity of aggression differed by country, sex, and parent occupational status. In all samples, childhood aggression was assessed via peer nominations and early adulthood aggression via self-reports. Multi-group structural equation models revealed …
Cross‐sectional associations between violent video and computer game playing and weapon carrying in a national cohort of children
Data were collected from 9 to 18 year olds surveyed nationally in a three-wave longitudinal survey. The population-average (generalized estimating equation, GEE) odds of carrying a weapon to school in the last month were estimated as a function of past-year exposure to violent content in video, computer, and Internet games, as well as peer aggression and biological sex. The sample included youth who were at risk for both the exposure (i.e., game …
Effects of playing a violent video game as male versus female avatar on subsequent aggression in male and female players
Previous research has shown that violent video games can increase aggression in players immediately after they play. The present research examines the effects of one subtle cue within violent video games that might moderate these effects-whether the avatar is male or female. One common stereotype is that males are more aggressive than females. Thus, playing a violent video game as a male avatar, compared to a female avatar, should be more likely …
Aggressive Behavior: Current Perspectives
Foreign Wars and Domestic Prejudice: How Media Exposure to the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict Predicts Ethnic Stereotyping by Jewish and Arab American Adolescents
This study was based on the theory that adolescents view scenes of violent ethnic conflicts in the mass media through the lens of their own ethnicity, and that the resulting social-cognitive reactions influence their negative stereotypes about similar ethnic groups in their own country. We interviewed 89 Jewish and 180 Arab American high school students about their exposure to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their social cognitive reactions to …
Desensitization to media violence: Links with habitual media violence exposure, aggressive cognitions, and aggressive behavior
This study examined the links between desensitization to violent media stimuli and habitual media violence exposure as a predictor and aggressive cognitions and behavior as outcome variables. Two weeks after completing measures of habitual media violence exposure, trait aggression, trait arousability, and normative beliefs about aggression, undergraduates (N = 303) saw a violent film clip and a sad or a funny comparison clip. Skin conductance lev…
Aggression
Nailing the coffin shut on doubts that violent video games stimulate aggression: Comment on Anderson et al. (2010)
Over the past half century the mass media, including video games, have become important socializers of children. Observational learning theory has evolved into social-cognitive information processing models that explain that what a child observes in any venue has both short-term and long-term influences on the child's behaviors and cognitions. C. A. Anderson et al.'s (2010) extensive meta-analysis of the effects of violent video games confirms wh…
The Effects of Prosocial Video Games on Prosocial Behaviors: International Evidence From Correlational, Longitudinal, and Experimental Studies
Although dozens of studies have documented a relationship between violent video games and aggressive behaviors, very little attention has been paid to potential effects of prosocial games. Theoretically, games in which game characters help and support each other in nonviolent ways should increase both short-term and long-term prosocial behaviors. We report three studies conducted in three countries with three age groups to test this hypothesis. I…
Long-term Effects of Parents' Education on Children's Educational and Occupational Success: Mediation by Family Interactions, Child Aggression, and Teenage Aspirations
We examine the prediction of individuals' educational and occupational success at age 48 from contextual and personal variables assessed during their middle childhood and late adolescence. We focus particularly on the predictive role of the parents' educational level during middle childhood, controlling for other indices of socioeconomic status and children's IQ, and the mediating roles of negative family interactions, childhood behavior, and lat…
Intensity of Aggression in Childhood as a Predictor of Different Forms of Adult Aggression: A Two‐Country (Finland and the United States) Analysis
This study examined the prediction of different forms of adult aggression in two countries from child and adolescent aggression. It was based on two longitudinal projects: the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS; N = 196 boys and 173 girls) conducted in Finland and the Columbia County Longitudinal Study (CCLS; N = 436 males and 420 females) conducted in the USA. The same peer-nominated items for aggression wer…
Continuity of aggression from childhood to early adulthood as a predictor of life outcomes: Implications for the adolescent‐limited and life‐course‐persistent models
Using data from the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, a 40‐year longitudinal study following an entire county's population of third‐grade students from age 8 to 48, we examine questions about the long‐term consequences of aggressive and antisocial behavior in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. We found moderate levels of continuity of aggression from age 8 to 48 both for males and for females. Contrary to what some have proposed, we f…
The Role of Violent Media Preference in Cumulative Developmental Risk for Violence and General Aggression
Stability of aggression over time and generations
In a study spanning 22 years, data were collected on the aggressiveness of over 600 subjects, their parents, and their children. Subjects who were the more aggressive 8-year-olds at the beginning of the study were discovered to be the more aggressive 30-year-olds at the end of the study. The stability of aggressive behavior was shown to be very similar to the stability of intellectual competence, especially for males. Early aggressiveness was pre…
Longitudinal relations between children's exposure to TV violence and their aggressive and violent behavior in young adulthood: 1977-1992
Children's normative beliefs about aggression and aggressive behavior
Normative beliefs have been defined as self-regulating beliefs about the appropriateness of social behaviors. In 2 studies the authors revised their scale for assessing normative beliefs about aggression, found that it is reliable and valid for use with elementary school children, and investigated the longitudinal relation between normative beliefs about aggression and aggressive behavior in a large sample of elementary school children living in …
Does television violence cause aggression
Grant M1726 from the National Institute of Mental Health and Contract No. HSM 42-70-60 from the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior
Psychological Processes Promoting the Relation Between Exposure to Media Violence and Aggressive Behavior by the Viewer
A developmental theory is presented to account for the relation between increased exposure to media violence and increased aggressive behavior. It is argued that the effect of media violence on individual differences in aggression is primarily the result of a cumulative learning process during childhood. Aggressive scripts for behavior are acquired from observation of media violence and aggressive behavior itself stimulates the observation of med…
Intervening variables in the TV violence–aggression relation: Evidence from two countries
s research was supported in part by Grants MH- 28280 and MH-3I886 from the National Institute of Mental Health to L. Rowell Huesmann, and by grants from the Council of Social Sciences, Academy of Finland (Valtion Yhteiskuntatieteelhnen Toimikunta, Suomen Akatemia) to Kirsti Lagerspetz
Continuity of aggression from childhood to early adulthood as a predictor of life outcomes: Implications for the adolescent‐limited and life‐course‐persistent models
Using data from the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, a 40‐year longitudinal study following an entire county's population of third‐grade students from age 8 to 48, we examine questions about the long‐term consequences of aggressive and antisocial behavior in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. We found moderate levels of continuity of aggression from age 8 to 48 both for males and for females. Contrary to what some have proposed, we f…
Age trends in the development of aggression, sex typing, and related television habits
Desensitization to media violence: Links with habitual media violence exposure, aggressive cognitions, and aggressive behavior
This study examined the links between desensitization to violent media stimuli and habitual media violence exposure as a predictor and aggressive cognitions and behavior as outcome variables. Two weeks after completing measures of habitual media violence exposure, trait aggression, trait arousability, and normative beliefs about aggression, undergraduates (N = 303) saw a violent film clip and a sad or a funny comparison clip. Skin conductance lev…
Mitigating the imitation of aggressive behaviors by changing children's attitudes about media violence
A sample of 169 first-and third-grade children, selected because of their high exposure to television violence, was randomly divided into an experimental and a control group.Over the course of 2 years, the experimental subjects were exposed to two treatments designed to reduce the likelihood of their imitating the aggressive behaviors they observed on TV.The control group received comparable neutral treatments.By the end of the second year, the e…
Media Violence and Antisocial Behavior: An Overview
Do media portrayals of interpersonal violence engender aggression among the observers? This question has been the focus of social scientific inquiry for over a quarter of a century. The initial research efforts of numerous investigators led to the surgeon general's research program on television and social behavior in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The surgeon general's conclusion that “television violence, indeed, does have an adverse effect on…
Middle childhood and adolescent contextual and personal predictors of adult educational and occupational outcomes: A mediational model in two countries
The authors examined the prediction of occupational attainment by age 40 from contextual and personal variables assessed during childhood and adolescence in 2 participant samples: (a) the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, a study of 856 third graders in a semirural county in New York State that began in 1960, and (b) the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, a study of 369 eight-year-olds in Jyväskylä, Finland, tha…
The Role of Violent Media Preference in Cumulative Developmental Risk for Violence and General Aggression
Measuring patterns of fantasy behavior in children
The research was supported in part by Grants MH-28280 and MH-31886 from the National Institute of Mental Health to the second author.
Childhood and adolescent risk and protective factors for violence in adulthood
Negative Stereotypes of Ethnic Outgroups: A Longitudinal Examination Among P alestinian, I sraeli J ewish, and I sraeli A rab Youth
Ethno-political conflict impacts thousands of youth globally and has been associated with a number of negative psychological outcomes. Extant literature has mostly addressed the adverse emotional and behavioral outcomes of exposure while failing to examine change over time in social-cognitive factors in contexts of ethno-political conflict. Using cohort-sequential longitudinal data, the present study examines ethnic variation in the development o…
Serious violent behavior and antisocial outcomes as consequences of exposure to ethnic‐political conflict and violence among Israeli and Palestinian youth
We examine whether cumulative-past and concurrent exposure to ethnic-political violence among Israeli and Palestinian youth predict serious violent behavior and antisocial outcomes toward the in-group and the out-group. We collected four waves of data from 162 Israeli Jewish and 400 Palestinian youths (three age cohorts: 8, 11, and 14 years old) and their parents. The first three waves were consecutive annual assessments, and the fourth was condu…
The Longitudinal Effects of Chronic Mediated Exposure to Political Violence on Ideological Beliefs About Political Conflicts Among Youths
This study examines the effects of chronic (i.e., repeated and cumulative) mediated exposure to political violence on ideological beliefs regarding political conflict. It centers on these effects on young viewers, from preadolescents to adolescents. Ideological beliefs refers here to support of war, perception of threat to one's nation, and normative beliefs concerning aggression toward the out-group. A longitudinal study was conducted on a sampl…
Foreign Wars and Domestic Prejudice: How Media Exposure to the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict Predicts Ethnic Stereotyping by Jewish and Arab American Adolescents
This study was based on the theory that adolescents view scenes of violent ethnic conflicts in the mass media through the lens of their own ethnicity, and that the resulting social-cognitive reactions influence their negative stereotypes about similar ethnic groups in their own country. We interviewed 89 Jewish and 180 Arab American high school students about their exposure to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their social cognitive reactions to …
Intensity of Aggression in Childhood as a Predictor of Different Forms of Adult Aggression: A Two‐Country (Finland and the United States) Analysis
This study examined the prediction of different forms of adult aggression in two countries from child and adolescent aggression. It was based on two longitudinal projects: the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS; N = 196 boys and 173 girls) conducted in Finland and the Columbia County Longitudinal Study (CCLS; N = 436 males and 420 females) conducted in the USA. The same peer-nominated items for aggression wer…
Intellectual functioning and aggression
In a 22-year study, data were collected on aggressiveness and intellectual functioning in more than 600 subjects, their parents, and their children. Both aggression and intellectual functioning are reasonably stable in a subject's lifetime and perpetuate themselves across generations and within marriage pairs. Aggression in childhood was shown to interfere with the development of intellectual functioning and to be predictive of poorer intellectua…
Expectancy confirmed again: A computer investigation of expectancy theory
Longitudinal predictions of young adults' weapons use and criminal behavior from their childhood exposure to violence
In this study, we examine whether youth who are exposed to more weapons violence are subsequently more likely to behave violently with weapons. We use data collected with a 3‐cohort, 4‐wave, 10‐year longitudinal study of 426 high‐risk youth from Flint, Michigan, who were second, fourth, or ninth‐graders in 2006–2007. The data were obtained from individual interviews with the youth, their parents, and their teachers, from archival school and crimi…
Preference for televised contact sports as related to sex differences in aggression
Developmental Changes in the Relation between Youth Disclosure and Parenting Behavior: A Cohort-sequential Analysis
Does television violence cause aggression
Grant M1726 from the National Institute of Mental Health and Contract No. HSM 42-70-60 from the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior
Television violence and aggression: The causal effect remains
Preference for televised contact sports as related to sex differences in aggression
How learning conditions in early childhood—Including mass media—Relate to aggression in late adolescence
A ten-year longitudinal study provides strong evidence that aggression is a learned behavior. Especially important in the acquisition of aggressive habits are the models of behavior to which the developing child is exposed. Boys and girls respond differentially because of different learning conditions
Expectancy confirmed again: A computer investigation of expectancy theory
Incremental Exchange Theory: A Formal Model for Progression in Dyadic Social Interaction
The convergence of laboratory and field studies of the development of aggression
Sohn should let sleeping doubts lie
Sohn should let sleeping doubts lie
Measuring patterns of fantasy behavior in children
The research was supported in part by Grants MH-28280 and MH-31886 from the National Institute of Mental Health to the second author.
On Sohn's accusations
On Sohn's accusations
Age trends in the development of aggression, sex typing, and related television habits
Mitigating the imitation of aggressive behaviors by changing children's attitudes about media violence
A sample of 169 first-and third-grade children, selected because of their high exposure to television violence, was randomly divided into an experimental and a control group.Over the course of 2 years, the experimental subjects were exposed to two treatments designed to reduce the likelihood of their imitating the aggressive behaviors they observed on TV.The control group received comparable neutral treatments.By the end of the second year, the e…
The relation of prosocial behavior to the development of aggression and psychopathology
The development of prosocial behavior is traced from middle childhood to adulthood in a 22-year longitudinal study of 800 children first seen at age 8 and is compared to the development of aggression over the same period. Prosocial behavior and aggression seem to represent opposite ends of a single dimension of behavior since they are consistently negatively related to each other and relate in opposite ways to correlated variables both synchronou…
Cognitive processes and the persistence of aggressive behavior
Recent data from several longitudinal studies including one spanning 22 years suggest that aggression is quite stable over time and situation. Early measures of intellectual competence predicted concurrent and later aggression, but early aggression was independently a good predictor of reduced intellectual achievement as an adult. Over a shorter period of years cognitive rehearsal of aggressive behaviors predicted overt aggression, was predicted …
Intervening variables in the TV violence–aggression relation: Evidence from two countries
s research was supported in part by Grants MH- 28280 and MH-3I886 from the National Institute of Mental Health to L. Rowell Huesmann, and by grants from the Council of Social Sciences, Academy of Finland (Valtion Yhteiskuntatieteelhnen Toimikunta, Suomen Akatemia) to Kirsti Lagerspetz
Stability of aggression over time and generations
In a study spanning 22 years, data were collected on the aggressiveness of over 600 subjects, their parents, and their children. Subjects who were the more aggressive 8-year-olds at the beginning of the study were discovered to be the more aggressive 30-year-olds at the end of the study. The stability of aggressive behavior was shown to be very similar to the stability of intellectual competence, especially for males. Early aggressiveness was pre…
Media Violence and Antisocial Behavior: An Overview
Do media portrayals of interpersonal violence engender aggression among the observers? This question has been the focus of social scientific inquiry for over a quarter of a century. The initial research efforts of numerous investigators led to the surgeon general's research program on television and social behavior in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The surgeon general's conclusion that “television violence, indeed, does have an adverse effect on…
Psychological Processes Promoting the Relation Between Exposure to Media Violence and Aggressive Behavior by the Viewer
A developmental theory is presented to account for the relation between increased exposure to media violence and increased aggressive behavior. It is argued that the effect of media violence on individual differences in aggression is primarily the result of a cumulative learning process during childhood. Aggressive scripts for behavior are acquired from observation of media violence and aggressive behavior itself stimulates the observation of med…
Intellectual functioning and aggression
In a 22-year study, data were collected on aggressiveness and intellectual functioning in more than 600 subjects, their parents, and their children. Both aggression and intellectual functioning are reasonably stable in a subject's lifetime and perpetuate themselves across generations and within marriage pairs. Aggression in childhood was shown to interfere with the development of intellectual functioning and to be predictive of poorer intellectua…
An information processing model for the development of aggression
A theory is presented to account for the development of habitual aggressive behavior during early childhood. It is argued that the aggressive child is one who has acquired aggressive scripts to guide behavior early in life. Once established these scripts become resistant to change and may even persist into adulthood. Aggressive scripts are acquired and maintained through both observational and enactive learning processes. These processes interact…
Differing Normative Beliefs about Aggression for Boys and Girls
Cognition and Aggression: A Reply to Fowers and Richardson
Fowers and Richardson (1993) charge that our theory of aggression is `infused with unacknowledged liberal individualistic... assumptions which portray humans as... autonomous, strategic agents seeking to achieve pre-given ends' (Abstract), and that these `unacknowledged sociocultural and moral values... distinctly limit its [our theory's] potential for either fully understanding unwanted forms of human aggression or orienting a practical response…
Attributions for social failure and adolescent aggression
In the present study, 119 high school boys and 79 institutionalized delinquent boys of the same age range were assessed on their own aggressive behavior and on their tendencies to attribute social failure to controllable, external, stable causes, anticipate a hostile affective response, and endorse aggressive behavioral responses to by pothetical social situations. While the two populations of boys did not differ detectably in their attributional…
Psychology (63 works) · Developmental psychology (45 works) · Aggression (44 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (40 works) · Social Psychology (38 works) · Poison control (34 works) · Medicine (32 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (25 works) · Suicide prevention (23 works) · Injury prevention (22 works)