Research
Interests: Frank
T. McAndrew,
Ph.D.
Aggression Research
In
the past 15 years or so I have gotten interested in the topic of
aggression as it overlaps with my evolutionary psychology
interests. I am especially interested in sex differences in mode
of aggression, with men more disposed toward physical violence and
women more likely to engage in indirect "relational" aggression.
The role played by testosterone in the regulation of human aggression
is also of interest to me. Some publications resulting from this
work can be
found below.
McAndrew, F. T. (2021,
January 25). What is your "style"for dealing with conflict at work? In Out
of the Ooze: Navigating the 21st
Century with a Stone-Age Mind, Psychology Today Magazine (Blog).
McAndrew, F. T. (2019,
August 18). There
are different kinds of mass shooters - and it
matters. In Out
of the Ooze: Navigating the 21st
Century with a Stone-Age Mind, Psychology Today Magazine (Blog).
McAndrew, F. T. (2019, May
17). Hot
and bothered: Does Heat Make People Aggressive? In Out of the Ooze: Navigating the 21st
Century with a Stone-Age Mind, Psychology Today Magazine (Blog).
McAndrew, F., T. (2018).
War. In T. Shackelford & V.
Weekes-Shackelford
(Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary
Psychological Science. New York: SpringerMeteor.
McAndrew, F. T. (2018, April 22). Why
Pretty Girls Get Bullied. In Out
of the Ooze: Navigating the 21st
Century with a Stone-Age Mind, Psychology Today Magazine Blog.
McAndrew, F. T. (2017).
Competition.
In P. I. Joseph (Ed.), Sage
Encyclopedia of War: Social Science
Perspectives (pp. 367-368). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
McAndrew, F. T.
(2017). How
did “The Gossip” become a woman and how did “Gossip” become
her weapon of choice? In M. L. Fisher (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook
of Women and Competition (pp. 191-205). New York: Oxford
University
Press.
McAndrew, F. T.
(2016, September).
Alpha Male or Omega Male? Precarious Manhood and the Violence of Young
Men. Invited lecture and workshop at the C. G. Jung Institute,
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
McAndrew, F. T.
(2016, January). The
Psychology of Going to War. In
Out of the Ooze:
Navigating the 21st Century with a Stone-Age Mind, Psychology Today Magazine Blog.
McAndrew, F. T. (2015, December 4). If
you give a man a gun: The
evolutionary psychology of mass shootings. [Published by
invitation; not peer-reviewed. This appeared several outlets,
including The Huffington Post,
CNN, IFLScience, & The Conversation]
McAndrew, F. T. (2015). What
men endure to be men. A review of
Jonathan Gottschall, The Professor
in the Cage: Why Men Fight, and Why We Like to Watch. New
York: Penguin Press. Evolutionary
Psychology, September, 1-2.
McAndrew, F. T. (2015, September). One
Psychologist's Two Cents
on Guns. In
Out of the Ooze:
Navigating the 21st Century with a Stone-Age Mind, Psychology Today Magazine Blog.
McAndrew, F. T.
(2015, February). The
“Precarious Manhood” of the Santa
Barbara Shooter. In Out of the
Ooze:
Navigating the 21st Century with a Stone-Age Mind, Psychology Today Magazine Blog.
McAndrew, F. T. (2014). The
"Sword of a Woman:" Gossip and Female
Aggression. Aggression and
Violent
Behavior, 19, 196-199.
Mast,
J. F., & McAndrew, F. T. (2011). Violent lyrics in
heavy
metal music can increase aggression in males. North American Journal
of Psychology, 13, 63-64.
McAndrew,
F. T. (2009). The
interacting roles of testosterone and
challenges to status in human male aggression. Aggression and
Violent Behavior, 14, 330-335.
Klinesmith,
J., Kasser, T., & McAndrew, F. T. (2006). Guns,
testosterone, and
aggression: An experimental test of a mediational model.
Psychological Science, 17,
568-571.
