The effect of witnessing an admirable versus an unadmirable aggressor upon subsequent aggression¹

This research was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH 01293 to Seymour Epstein, and the writing was finished during Jack Rakosky's tenure as a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow MH 55202. The authors wish to thank Bruce Gatterman and Paul Henry for their assistance as experimenters and models and Richard Stewart and Michael Perceval for then-assistance as models. Appreciation is also expressed to James Averill and Ervin Staub for their constructive criticism of an earlier draft of this paper.

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