Figure 15.10: Situation-specific profiles of verbal aggression for two children Shoda, Mischel, and Wright (1994) recorded various categories of behaviors among children who had emotional disturbances in various social situations at a summer camp. Shown here are results concerning verbal aggressiveness for two children. Zero on the y axis represents the average aggressiveness for all the children observed. In overall verbal aggressiveness, these two children were similar, but they were very different with respect to the situations that elicited their aggression.