Featuring Leaders in the Research on Violence and Aggression

The International Society for Research on Aggression hosts an online speaker series each academic year that features five scholars in the field of aggression and violence. One of the five scholars is from the New Investigators Program. Pre-registration is required and is completely free. Each event begins at 13:00 (1 PM) Eastern Time.

Past Presentations

April 3, 2024

ISRA New Investigators’ Symposium
Four New Investigators from the 2022 cohort will present on recent research within their respective research programs

  • Elizabeth Summerell, University of New South Wales, Australia
    Regulating Brain Systems Involved in Alcohol-Related Aggression

  • Alisson Pinto de Almeida, University of São Paulo, Brazil 
    Neural and Behavioral Effects of Social Stress in Mice: A Focus in Social Defensive Behavior

  • Ana Bravo Castillo, University of Córdoba, Spain
    Social Structure of Participation and Defending Trajectories

  • Karolina Dyduch-Hazar, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Germany
    Schadenfreude at the Suffering of Enemy 

Moderators: Tom Gumpel and Dominic Parrott

March 6, 2024

Irene Vitoroulis
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Bias-Based Bullying Victimization

February 7, 2024

Noni Gaylord-Harden
Professor, Texas A&M University, USA
Research on Community Violence Exposure Among Black Adolescents: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Ahead

January 10, 2024

Katja Bertsch
Professor, Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Reactive Aggression in Borderline Personality Disorder: From Neural Correlates to Therapeutic Interventions

 

December 6, 2023

Enrique Chaux
Professor, Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia
Restorative Justice to Manage Bullying? Results From a Pilot Protocol

April 12, 2023

John Knutson, Ph.D. 
Professor, University of Iowa (USA); Past-President, ISRA

Enduring Measurement Problems in Aggression Research: Examples From Child Maltreatment Work

March 8, 2023

Barbara Krahé, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, University of Potsdam (Germany); Past-President, ISRA

Blaming the Victim: How Rape Myths and Stereotypes Shape Responses to Sexual Assault

February 8, 2023

Sarah Coyne, Ph.D.
Professor, Brigham Young University (USA)

Who Is Most at Risk for Aggressive Behavior After Playing Violent Video Games? A Differential Susceptibility Approach

December 7, 2022

Kaj Björkqvist, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Åbo Akademi University (Finland); Past-President, ISRA

Sex Differences in Aggression: A Review

November 9, 2022 

Michael Potegal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor ad Honorem, University of Minnesota (USA); Past-President, ISRA

Some Phenomena and Physiology of Two Aggression Motivation Systems: Anger and Non-angry Aggressive Arousal (Angriffsbereitschaft in Other Animals)

March 9, 2022

Rebecca Bondü, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychologsche Hochschule Berlin (Germany)

Leaking as a Starting Point of the Prevention of School Shootings and Terrorism

February 9, 2022

Dominic Parrott, Ph.D.
Professor, Georgia State University (USA)

Determinants of Violence Toward Sexual and Gender Minorities: A Critical Review and Call to Action

 

January 12, 2022

Dayu Lin, Ph.D.
Professor, New York University (USA)

Neural Mechanisms of Aggression

December 8, 2021

Tracy Vaillancourt, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Ottawa (Canada); President, ISRA

The Long-Term Outcomes of Childhood Bullying

November 10, 2021 

Amarnath Amarasingam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Queen’s University (Canada)

ISIS and the Foreign Fighter Phenomenon: What Happened? And What Now?