The effect of threat on perceptual affect in a group.
- 1 October 1951
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Vol. 46 (4) , 529-533
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0059090
Abstract
A series of 31 pictures of persons were rated for "goodness" or "badness" on a nine-point scale in two sessions, once with S under stress and once with S not under stress. "The proposition tested was that shifts in the perceptual affect of persons under threat would not occur over the complete range of stimuli but would be focalized in the specific age-sex group of pictures which best represented the age-sex category of the instigator of threat." The shift occurred toward the group of the same sex but distant in age. Secondary displacement is hypothesized as an explanatory principle. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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