Paul Boxer
Assistant Professor
PhD Bowling Green State University
Rutgers University, Psychology Department
101 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Smith Hall Room 333
Phone-Office: (973) 353-5440 ext. 231
Fax: (973) 353-1171
E-mail: pboxer at(@) psychology.rutgers.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Boxer studies violent and non-violent antisocial behavior with an emphasis on socialization mechanisms
accounting for the development and expression of these forms of behavior over time and across situation. Boxer focuses his
research on atypical and at-risk populations, with active projects sampling juvenile delinquents and adult criminals, adolescents
in psychiatric and outpatient clinical treatment, and individuals living in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. Boxer's
work includes projects funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Specific studies examine how factors such as violence in communities,
the media, families, and peer groups shape and maintain problem behaviors such as aggression, delinquency, and
substance use. Boxer also has expertise in the design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention and intervention
programs for youth aggression, and is interested in how social-developmental and clinical science can be integrated
to improve services for children and adolescents. He is an affiliate of the Aggression Research Program of the University of Michigan.
Representative publications:
Boxer, P., Edwards-Leeper, L., Goldstein, S.E., Musher-Eizenman, D., & Dubow, E.F. (2003). Exposure to "low-level" aggression in school: Associations with aggressive behavior, future expectations, and perceived safety. Violence and Victims, 18, 691-705.
Boxer, P., Tisak, M.S, & Goldstein, S.E. (2004). Is it bad to be good? An exploration of aggressive and prosocial behavior subtypes in adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 33, 91-100.
Boxer, P., & Tisak, M.S. (2005). Children's beliefs about the continuity of aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 31, 172-188.
Boxer, P. (2007). Aggression in very high-risk youth: Examining developmental risk in an inpatient psychiatric population. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 77, 636-646.
Boxer, P., Huesmann, L.R., O'Brien, M.J., & Moceri, D.C. (2008, March). Violent media effects on violent and nonviolent antisocial behavior in delinquent adolescents and high school students. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
Boxer, P., Morris, A.S., Terranova, A.M., Kithakye, M., Savoy, S.C., & McFaul, A. (In press, 2008). Coping with exposure to violence: Relations to violence: Relations to aggression and emotional symptoms in three urban samples. Journal of Child and Family Studies.