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How Marginal Deviations Sometimes Grow Into Serious Aggression.

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Caprara, GV; Dodge, KA; Pastorelli, C; Zelli, A
Published in: Child development perspectives
July 2007

We offer a theory of marginal deviations that articulates the processes through which initial behavior that is only slightly deviant from the norm gets transformed into more serious antisocial outcomes. We present evidence that, of the one third of the population that is marginally deviant, about one fourth (or 8% of the total population) becomes seriously deviant over time. Hypothesized factors in this transformation involve the child actor, peer observer-judges, and social transactions between them in processes that derive from self-fulfilling prophecies and dynamic systems theory. Hypotheses and studies are proposed to address the circumstances and processes that determine whether a marginal deviation will be bought back to the norm (through assimilation and attenuation) or accelerated to severe deviance (through accommodation and amplification).

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Child development perspectives

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EISSN

1750-8606

ISSN

1750-8592

Publication Date

July 2007

Volume

1

Issue

1

Start / End Page

33 / 39

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Caprara, G. V., Dodge, K. A., Pastorelli, C., & Zelli, A. (2007). How Marginal Deviations Sometimes Grow Into Serious Aggression. Child Development Perspectives, 1(1), 33–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-8606.2007.00007.x
Caprara, Gian Vittorio, Kenneth A. Dodge, Concetta Pastorelli, and Arnaldo Zelli. “How Marginal Deviations Sometimes Grow Into Serious Aggression.Child Development Perspectives 1, no. 1 (July 2007): 33–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-8606.2007.00007.x.
Caprara GV, Dodge KA, Pastorelli C, Zelli A. How Marginal Deviations Sometimes Grow Into Serious Aggression. Child development perspectives. 2007 Jul;1(1):33–9.
Caprara, Gian Vittorio, et al. “How Marginal Deviations Sometimes Grow Into Serious Aggression.Child Development Perspectives, vol. 1, no. 1, July 2007, pp. 33–39. Epmc, doi:10.1111/j.1750-8606.2007.00007.x.
Caprara GV, Dodge KA, Pastorelli C, Zelli A. How Marginal Deviations Sometimes Grow Into Serious Aggression. Child development perspectives. 2007 Jul;1(1):33–39.
Journal cover image

Published In

Child development perspectives

DOI

EISSN

1750-8606

ISSN

1750-8592

Publication Date

July 2007

Volume

1

Issue

1

Start / End Page

33 / 39

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1701 Psychology