Reviewers' Comments

"Gordon Russell has been a leading researcher in the area of aggression in general, and sports aggression in particular, for several decades. As a result, he is able to draw from and synthesize research and theory from a variety of social sciences in his new text Aggression in the Sports World: A Social Psychological Perspective. By focusing on both the fans and the players, this text is the most comprehensive volume to date on the topic of sports aggression. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the social psychological underpinnings of sports aggression."
—Daniel L. Wann, PhD, Board of Directors, National Alliance for Youth Sport, and Professor of Psychology, Murray State University

"Gordon Russell has been an outstanding researcher into aggression in sport for over three decades, and the driving force behind this excellent book is his personal passion for the topic. This book easily achieves his goal of providing a current and informative description of the dynamics underlying aggressive behaviors in the sports world. His writing is both scholarly and enjoyable and his text is one that all those interested in aggression in sport should read and keep within reach on their bookshelves for regular consultation."
—John Kerr, Professor, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, Kokushikan University

"Gordon Russell has brought some serious scholarship to the social psychology of sports. One would expect nothing less from a man whose own research has been in the forefront of recent work on the topic. An interesting and timely book."
—Ron Baenninger, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Temple University

"Russell offers an evidence-based assessment of the causes, correlates, consequences and control of sports-related violence. Aggression in the Sports World: A Social Psychological Perspective is especially well suited to courses in sports psychology, physical education, and applied psychology, and will be of interest to athletes, coaches, and all those wanting a broad, accessible overview of violence in and surrounding sport."
—Jeffrey Goldstein, Professor, Department of Mass Communication and the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

"Although Professor Russell's volume is not the first to focus on violence in sports, his book Aggression in the Sports World: A Social Psychological Perspective is, I believe, a seminal publication that is likely to be of great interest to people specifically interested in human conflict and its control as well as to others more generally concerned about organized sports."
—Professor Paul F. Brain, BSc, PhD, FIBiol, Cbiol, Former President of the International Society for Research on Aggression

"A worthy addition to the literature. Recommended."
—Choice

"While readers are being exposed to a great amount of great amount of social psychological theory and research, the material [in this book] is presented in a far more inviting fashion than what is found in a typical social psychology text. To elaborate, Russell's writing style is extraordinarily clear in a unique manner. Those with no background in social psychology will be able to come away from this text with a fairly solid knowledge base to build on. . . . [This] is a great text that is sure to please social psychologists, aggression scholars, students of psychology, those interested in athletics, and laypeople alike."
—PsycCritiques

"[A] comprehensive survey of the most recent and important research in the study of sports aggression, is both international and interdisciplinary in scope, and includes coverage of a variety of initiatives that are being, or have been, developed to prevent or minimize the severity of riots and panics. . . . For all those wanting a broad overview of aggression in and surrounding sport, Russell's text is a valuable reference book for regular consultation."
—Idrottsforum.org

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