伯考维茨(1926-)，美国社会心理学家，致力于对情绪状态尤其是愤怒的形成、发展和调节的分析研究，因对侵犯行为的研究而著名，同时他还从事对帮助行为的研究。
里昂纳德·伯科威茨（Leonard Berkowitz）以大学生们为研究对象进行了一系列试验。在这些实验中，实验对象观看暴力节目或非暴力节目，被挑衅或未被挑衅。伯科威茨发现，观看暴力节目比观看非暴力节目的实验对象，在被挑衅时行为更具攻击性。此外，伯科威茨和他的助手还在公共机构里对少年犯进行了一系列实地实验。这些实验评估了那些被指定连续数周观看媒介暴力内容的男孩在身体上和语言上的攻击性，并与其他未观看暴力节目的男孩的攻击性程度作了比较。研究结果与实验室调查结果趋于一致：观看了媒介暴力内容的男孩更有可能实施攻击行为。
《社会心理学》
作 者：（美）伦纳德·伯克威茨（Leonard Berkowitz）著；张霁明译
出版社：吉林人民出版社
ISBN：9787206001017 / 7206001017
出版时间：1988.2
Leonard Berkowitz was born on August 11, 1926. He earned his Ph.D. in
social psychology from the University of Michigan in 1951. After
graduating, he went to the U.S. Air Force Human Resources Center in San
Antonio, Texas, where he was involved in applying social psychology to
real-life situations. However, after several years, Berkowitz decided he
really wanted an academic career, and in 1955 he accepted a position at
the University of Wisconsin. He continued there until his retirement in
1993.
Berkowitz is well known for his studies of human aggression. He also
studied the other side of human nature, helping behavior. He served as
editor for a series of books called Advances in Experimental Social
Psychology from 1962 until 1987. Berkowitz's books include Aggression: A
Social Psychological Analysis (1962) and Aggression: Its Causes,
Consequences, and Control (1993).
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Representative Publications
Berkowitz, L. (1990). On the formation and regulation of anger and
aggression: A cognitive-neoassociationistic analysis. American
Psychologist.
Berkowitz, L. (1989). The frustration-aggression hypothesis: Examination
and reformulation. Psychological Bulletin, 106, 59-73.
Berkowitz, L. (1987). Mood, self-awareness, and the willingness to help.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 721-729.
Berkowitz, L. (1984). Some effects of thoughts on the anti- and
prosocial influences of media events: A cognitive neoassociationistic
analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 95, 410-427.