There is also good news for society in these results. Outbreaks of aggressive behavior that are limited to middle childhood or that are limited to adolescence (but not both) were shown to have few long-term negative consequences. These results are consistent with prior findings that have suggested that many children grow out of early childhood problem behaviors [Duncan et al., 2007] and experience adolescent aggression as a short-term deviation with few long-term consequences [Moffitt, 1993]. It is during these periods that situational and contextual stimuli probably have the strongest short-term effects on behavior, producing deviations from long-term trends.
