
Paul Boxer
Adjunct Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
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BIO
His own research interests center on the development, prevention, and treatment of aggressive and disruptive behavior in children and adolescents. Boxer is particularly concerned with the application of normative models of aggression to understanding and reducing this behavior among high-risk and seriously emotionally disturbed youth.
- Paul Boxer, Eric F Dubow, Meagan Ashley Docherty, L_Rowell Huesmann, Simha Landau, Khalil Shikaki, Kaylise Algrim. 2026. Impact of Chronic Multi-Context Violence on Post-Traumatic Stress and Aggression Among Israeli and Palestinian Youth. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
- Meagan Ashley Docherty, Eric F Dubow, Paul Boxer, L_Rowell Huesmann. 2026. Normative beliefs approving of aggression moderate the observational learning of weapon use. Psychology of Violence 16(2):190-201.
- Meagan Ashley Docherty, Eric F Dubow, Paul Boxer, L_Rowell Huesmann. 2026. Normative beliefs approving of aggression moderate the observational learning of weapon use. Psychology of Violence 16(2):190-201.
- Eric F Dubow, Paul Boxer, L_Rowell Huesmann, Meagan Ashley Docherty, Craig A. Anderson. 2025. Contagious effects of gun violence in the media: A social-cognitive perspective. Handbook of Gun Violence :157-170.
- Eric F Dubow, Paul Boxer, Meagan Ashley Docherty, L_Rowell Huesmann, Simha F. Landau, Khalil Shikaki. 2025. Political violence exposure and youth aggression in the context of the social ecological systems and family stress models: A four-wave prospective study of Israeli and Palestinian youth. International Journal of Behavioral Development
- Moreno, Franklin, Paul Boxer. 2025. Advancing a transnational ecological systems framework for research on exposure to violence. Developmental Review 76:101200.
- Hoegler Dennis, Sarah, Moreno, Franklin, Paul Boxer, Cummings, E. Mark. 2025. Measures of adolescents' emotional security and exposure to violence in relation to the community, police, and gangs: Evidence for validity in a sample of Honduran youth. Peace and Conflict
- Meagan Ashley Docherty, Paul Boxer, L_Rowell Huesmann, Brad J Bushman, Craig A. Anderson, Douglas A. Gentile, Eric F Dubow. 2024. Within-Person Bidirectional Associations Over Time Between Parenting and Youths' Callousness. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 53(4):607-622.
- Kaylise Algrim, Mamadee Keita, Christian Herbert, Franklin Moreno, Paul Boxer. 2024. Perceptions of police as a moderator between negative experiences and mental health symptoms. Journal of Community Psychology 52(8):1163-1178.
- Franklin Moreno, Sarah Hoegler Dennis, E. Mark Cummings, Paul Boxer. 2024. "When someone is in a safe place, I believe that your mind rests" emotional security amid community violence: A cross-national study with youth in Newark, New Jersey, USA, and San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 99:101941.