Sentences with phrase «displays aggressive traits»

Not exact matches

An individual dog may display more outgoing, friendly traits in a home environment; by the same token, a seemingly docile dog in a shelter may show more defensive or aggressive traits when in another environment.

With the signing of Vick, to the New York Jets, in March, Tessa Stuart in the Village Voice, wrote, «In addition to plunking down $ 34,000 to buy the Smithfield, Virginia, property where dozens of dogs were chained to car axles buried in the ground while they fought, sometimes to the death, in front of betting spectators, Vick and his co-defendants admitted to killing at least six (but perhaps as many as eight) dogs who did not display sufficiently aggressive traits during the «testing» process.

Changing classroom norms to enable youth to acquire status through different means than aggressive displays [64] may be effective for those youth scoring high on Narcissism, preventive empathy training [12] may help reduce bullying among youth high on CU traits, and anger regulation [67] may reduce bullying among those youth scoring high on impulsivity.

Regarding externalizing problems, results of studies that have included indices of positive emotions are mixed: no differences in the display of happiness between aggressive and non-aggressive youth (Orobio de Castro et al. 2005), lower state but not trait happiness in delinquent youth than a comparison group (Plattner et al. 2007), and higher happiness in response to antisocial acts in adolescent males with conduct disorder have all been reported (Cimbora and McIntosh 2003).