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Institution
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Current Position
Vilas Research Professor Emeritus
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Michigan, 1951
Research Interests
 | Aggression |
| Emotion |
| Helping/Pro-Social Behavior |
| Social Cognition |
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Len Berkowitz
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin
5818 Anchorage Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53705-4404
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (608) 231-3198
Fax: (608) 231-3680
Although retired, I am still trying to develop my analysis of the formation, operation, and regulation of emotional states, particularly anger. This formulation holds that particular feelings, ideas, memories, and expressive-motor reactions are linked together associatively in an emotion-state network. The activation of any one of these components through focal attention presumably activates the other components in the same network. In the case of anger, it is presumed that any unpleasant feeling will tend to activate rudimentary anger feelings as well as aggression-related ideas, memories, and expressive-motor reactions, theoretically because of a biologically determined association connecting negative affect with these components.
 Books:
 Berkowitz, L. (2000). Causes and consequences of feelings. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Berkowitz, L. (1993). Aggression: Its causes, consequences, and control. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Journal Articles:
- Anderson, C., Berkowitz, L., Donnerstein, E., Huesmann, L. R., Johnson, J., Linz, D., Malamuth, N., & Wartella, E. (2003). The influence of media violence on youth. Psychological Science in the Public Interest. 4, 81-110.
- Berkowitz, L. (1990). On the formation and regulation of anger and aggression: A cognitive-neoassociationistic analysis. American Psychologist.
- Berkowitz, L. (1989). The frustration-aggression hypothesis: Examination and reformulation. Psychological Bulletin, 106, 59-73.
- Berkowitz, L., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2004). Toward an understanding of the determinants of anger. Emotion, 4, 107-130.
Other Publications:
- Berkowitz, L. (2003). Affect, aggression, and antisocial behavior. In R. Davidson, K. Scherer, & H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Sciences (pp. 804-823). New York/Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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