Research on the communication trait of verbal aggressiveness (VA), which includes behavior like name calling, ridicule, insults, racial epithets and threats, has tended to focus on its social causes.

Ideally, places of work should be rich in cooperation, with co-workers and managers working in tandem to reach business goals. In some instances, however, aggression upsets this harmony. Because ...

Dentists reported experiencing physical, verbal, and reputational aggression from their patients during the past year in a study published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Dental ...

When out and about, you may have heard parents shouting at their children. In fact, few people make it all the way through parenthood without ever yelling. But a new systematic review finds that ...

Episodes of "The Apprentice" served up 85 acts of verbal or relational aggression per hour "American Idol" checked in at 57 aggressive acts per hour The researchers found roughly half of the ...

"I didn’t know that the way my mother talked to me wasn’t the way other mothers talked to their daughters. I was an only child, and her constant criticism and putting me down made me feel terrible ...