Emil F. Coccaro
Psychology · The Ohio State University
Publications
647
Citations
19,005
Est. group size
~1
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
50
Publishing since 1977
Emil F. Coccaro studies impulsive and aggressive behavior, with a particular focus on intermittent explosive disorder (a condition marked by recurrent, disproportionate outbursts of anger or aggression). His work combines clinical psychiatry, laboratory-based aggression testing, biological markers (such as hormones and inflammatory measures), and psychosocial factors like childhood history and suicide risk to understand why some people struggle with anger control.
Publication output has declined from a peak of 23 papers in 2019 to a steadier but lower pace of roughly 4-7 papers per year in 2023-2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Individuals with Intermittent Explosive Disorder Exhibit Idiosyncratic Neural Responses during Social-emotional Processing
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026
- Self-regulation in adults with intermittent explosive disorder and a history of suicide attempts
Journal of Psychiatric Research · 2025
- Exploring the metabolic signature of intermittent explosive disorder: Preliminary evidence and potential mechanisms for altered bilirubin metabolism
Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025
- Integrative analysis of psychosocial, chronotype, and environmental predictors of aggressive behavior in Adolescents: Insights from machine learning
Journal of Psychiatric Research · 2025
- Extreme (“20”) self-shocks during the Self-Aggression Paradigm and lifetime suicide attempt history: Potential use in suicide research
Journal of Psychiatric Research · 2025
- Increased risk of smoking and pain in individuals with intermittent explosive disorder in the All of Us dataset
Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2025
- How Do Anger and Impulsivity Impact Fast-Food Consumption in Transitional Age Youth?
AJPM Focus · 2024
- A latent class analysis of cognitive-affective heterogeneity in current intermittent explosive disorder
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2024
- Comparing behavioral measures of aggression in the laboratory: Taylor Aggression Paradigm versus Point‐Subtraction Aggression Paradigm
Aggressive Behavior · 2024
- Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid inflammatory markers and human aggression
Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023
- Childhood and parental characteristics of adults with DSM-5 intermittent explosive disorder compared with healthy and psychiatric controls
Comprehensive Psychiatry · 2023
- Heightened threat perceptions and reduced stability in anxiety and fear among U.S. adults who carry handguns
Journal of Anxiety Disorders · 2023
- Salivary cortisol awakening levels are reduced in human subjects with intermittent explosive disorder compared with controls
Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023
- Laboratory assessment of aggression: The Taylor Aggression Paradigm in adults with and without a disorder of impulsive aggression
Journal of Psychiatric Research · 2023
- Heightened Threat Perceptions and Reduced Stability in Anxiety and Fear Among U.S. Adults Who Carry Handguns
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023
- Journal of Psychiatric Research×15
- Elsevier eBooks×10
- Comprehensive Psychiatry×7
- Psychoneuroendocrinology×5
- Psychiatry Research×5
- Jennifer S. Cheavens
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Kristen P. Howard
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Sophie A. Lazarus
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Douglas B. Samuel
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Donald R. Lynam
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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