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discusses self-presentations by violence-perpetrating men that are designed to garner approval of or to minimize disapproval by significant others / violence self-portraits vary in emphasis over time and across audiences / different reconstructions carry different connotations about the person's motives and personality makeup / these connotations are designed to impress different listeners and to affect their view of the aggressor / the self-portraits also aim at the aggressor's view of himself (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)