Personality type, reports of violence, and aggressive behavior.
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 30 (2) , 243-247
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0036650
Abstract
Compared 30 agressive and 30 nonaggressive male undergraduates (as measured by the K-corrected Scale 4 of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) on an extrasensory learning task supposedly involving shock for incorrect responses following exposure to actual verbal (nonvisual) news reports of either nonviolent events or violent events with or without prior anger-arousing insult. Although exposure to violent reports resulted in an increase in aggressive behavior, the pattern was somewhat different for aggressive and nonaggressive Ss. Aggressive Ss administered higher "shocks" than did nonaggressive Ss on a pretest obtained before subjecting Ss to any of the treatment conditions, and showed an increase in aggression after exposure to violent reports even without prior anger-arousing insult. For nonaggressive Ss, prior anger arousal appeared to be an important prerequisite for aggressive behavior comparable to that exhibited by aggressive Ss to occur. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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