A large amount of research suggests that aggressive
children differ from their non-aggressive peers in
the way they process social information in conflict
situations. Using Crick & Dodges (1994) Social
Information Processing following Provocation Model
as a theoretical framework, this investigation was
undertaken to explore adults social information
processing under the influence of verbal and
physical provocation (e.g. taunting, being hit with
a stick) as well as assessing how specific
subcategories of aggressive behaviour (hostile and
instrumental aggression) relate to different...

Can works of art convey psychological pain? This study deals with the question of whether the paintings of famous artists who have committed suicide are reflective of their inner turmoil. The authors discovered that, in the absence of information about or interpretation by the artists, paintings provided sufficient information to enable non-expert judges to make reliable content-related judgements (e.g. destructiveness and hopelessness) that distinguished between paintings created near the time of artists' suicides and their paintings created at a time of better mental well-being. It was also...