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... CONCLUDING STATEMENT Clinical and precTinical definitions of violent and aggressive behavior range across a variety of behavioral phenomena that differ in terms of distal and proximal antecedents, intensity and frequency of behavioral acts, and functions. During the past 15 years, animal aggression research, influenced by an ethological framework, has begun to focus on adaptive patterns of behavior in biologically meaningful contexts, while clinical research is concerned with aggressive and violent acts as "behavioral pathologies," viewing aggression alternatively as a trait or a state.
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