In the final chapter of the 2006 Argumentative and Aggressive Communication a few well known communication scholars speculated about the future of such study, and that became the most discussed
and controversial part of the volume. Those scholars, two in China and the rest in the US, return to discuss developments in the research since that previous volume. They consider such topics
as verbal aggression and prefrontal cortex asymmetry, understanding the role of verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness in international negotiations, reconsidering the role of aggressive
communication in higher education, mapping the domain of aggressive communication within medical care, the interactionist model of teasing communication, taking conflict personally and its
connections with aggressiveness, and verbal trigger events and other catalysts and precursors of aggression. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
