Indirect aggression, however, becomes more prevalent as children grow older and is consistently more common in girls.

Indirect aggression occurs when the victim is attacked through covert and concealed attempts to cause social suffering.

The signatories would share the military burdens of protecting Southeast Asia from "indirect aggression."

Relational or indirect aggression was found to be associated with depression and suicidal ideation among both genders.

Indirect aggression is mostly intimidation displays.

With indirect aggression factored in, aggression in childhood is no longer primarily a male affair.

Tripartite talks regarding "indirect aggression"

Females prefer indirect aggression, which Anne Campbell described last year in an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences journal.

Although these two methods involve physical violence, both are forms of indirect aggression, since the aggressor herself avoids getting directly involved or putting herself in immediate physical danger.

The USSR proposed to consider that a political turn towards Germany by the Baltic states would constitute an "indirect aggression" towards the Soviet Union.

"Indirect aggression by its nature seeks to conceal the identity of the attacker and should therefore be less appealing to boys," wrote Dr. Campbell, a psychologist at Durham University in England.

Social psychology approaches to human aggression have developed a multitude of perspectives, based on observations of human phenomena like bullying, mobbing, physical and verbal abuse, relational and indirect aggression, etc.

As the confidential British Foreign Office papers make clear, the political talks in Moscow had reached an impasse by the last week in July largely over the impossibility of reaching a definition of "indirect aggression."

In Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, Jacques Ellul discusses psychological warfare as a common peace policy practice between nations as a form of indirect aggression in place of military aggression.

A study of twins found that genetic makeup could account for 40 percent of indirect aggression - throwing things or having tantrums - while 38 percent of general irritability may be genetically based, according to researcher Emil Coccaro.

Findings of a study by Rivers and Smith have shown that while verbal aggression occurs with similar frequency in both sexes, direct physical aggression is more common among boys and indirect aggression is more common among girls.

In some situations women show equal or more aggression than men; for example, women are more likely to use direct aggression in private, where other people cannot see them, and are more likely to use indirect aggression in public.

The law states that ground, maritime, and air forces are to preserve the peace and independence of the nation and to maintain national security by conducting operations on land, at sea, and in the air to defend the nation against direct and indirect aggression.

The badmouthing, gossip and smear campaigns that can demolish an opponent as well as direct verbal or physical assaults are now formally known in psychological circles as "indirect aggression," and their patterns are tracked as carefully as punches and kicks.

The British reject the Soviet definition, especially the concept of "indirect aggression", which they feel is too loose a definition and phrased in such a manner as to imply the Soviet right of inference in the internal affairs of nations of Eastern Europe.

The discussion about a definition of "indirect aggression" became one of the sticking points between the parties, and by mid-July the tripartite political negotiations effectively stalled, while the parties agreed to start negotiations on a military agreement, which the Soviets insisted must be entered into simultaneously with any political agreement.

When the British tried to strike a bargain, offering on July 17 to begin staff conversations at once if the Soviet Union would yield on its insistence on signing political and military agreements simultaneously and also - for good measure - accept the British definition of "indirect aggression," Molotov answered with a blunt rejection.