Magnitude of victim's pain cues and level of prior anger arousal as determinants of adult aggressive behavior.

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Hypothesized that: (a) under conditions where Ss were not angered prior to their opportunity to aggress, increments in the magnitude of pain cues emitted by the victim would lead to corresponding reductions in the strength of the attacks against this individual; and (b) under conditions where Ss were angered before aggressing, it was predicted that increments in the magnitude of pain cues from the victim would either fail to inhibit or actually tend to facilitate subsequent aggression. Results of an experiment with 60 male undergraduates indicate that Ss direct more intense attacks against the victim under the angered than the nonangered condition, but the strength of these attacks decreases significantly under both conditions as the magnitude of pain cues from the victim increases. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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