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  • Fired Up: The Psychology of Aggression and the Practice of Self-Control

  • By: Nathan DeWall
  • Narrated by: Nathan DeWall
  • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins

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Fired Up: The Psychology of Aggression and the Practice of Self-Control

By: Nathan DeWall
Narrated by: Nathan DeWall
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Publisher's Summary

Award-winning psychology professor and leading textbook author Nathan DeWall has been called “one of the most influential psychological science leaders of his generation.” Now, you can join him in a fascinating audio course that helps answer the question, “Why do people behave aggressively?” 

Aggression is one of the most troubling facets of the human experience. As we know from the nightly news, aggression causes people to harm people they know, people they love, and people they’ve never met. Some people cause harm because they feel too much, whereas others do so because they don’t feel much at all. Our genes influence whether we’ll respond to an insult with aggression, but so does our culture. So the question might instead be: Why don’t more people behave aggressively?

In this engaging 15-lecture course, Prof. DeWall walks you through the briar patch of aggression to answer all your questions about the root causes of hostile behavior. Incorporating vivid case studies and psychological research, the lectures challenge you to reconsider what you think you know about aggression and offer practical tools to prevent it in your daily life. 

Listen along with Prof. DeWall today for an in-depth look at this fascinating but troubling aspect of human behavior.

This course is part of the Learn25 collection. 

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Critic Reviews

“Nathan DeWall is a fine scientist having a stellar career. His creativity, high energy, and wide-ranging curiosity have helped him make groundbreaking contributions in multiple areas. He is also a heckuva a nice guy. Everyone can learn from him.” (Roy F. Baumeister, Professor of Psychology, University of Queensland)

"Professor Nathan DeWall is recognized internationally as one of the most influential psychological science leaders of his generation. He is renowned for both his cutting edge research and for his teaching excellence in the classroom, in his books, and in his ongoing teaching of psychology series in the APS Observer. His ability to explain complex material in a clear and concise way is unsurpassed." (Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University) 

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