In search of what may affect the likeliness or desire to be aggressive, Joy P. Wyckoff (2016) studies what traits and intrinsic motivators play a role. In her article Aggression and Emotion: Anger, Not General Negative Affect, Predicts Desire to Aggress, Wyckoff reviews two studies that retest the recalibrational theory of anger, and sought to prove that anger is the only mediator in the relationship between aggression and a provocation. In the recalibrational theory of anger, it is thought that to resolve interpersonal conflicts, anger is a motivating behavior. It is important to study what mediates anger, to get to the underlying psychological mechanisms of what causes aggressive behaviors. The two studies were both done on college campuses
