Autonomic conditioning to monetary and social stimuli and aggression in children
In this study, skin conductance responses in a conditioning task involving both monetary/social reward and punishment as unconditioned stimuli were assessed in 340 male and female 8‐ to 9‐year‐old children from the community. Children reported their reactive and proactive aggression using the Reactive and Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ; Raine et al., ). Results showed that monetary/social reward and punishment were effective in eliciting physiological classical conditioning in children, and that reduced reward conditioning was associated with high levels of proactive aggression in particular. Findings highli...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yu Gao, Krystal Mendez, Xiaobo Li, Meng ‐Cheng Wang Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Exposure to hate speech increases prejudice through desensitization
In three studies (two representative nationwide surveys, N = 1,007, N = 682; and one experimental, N = 76) we explored the effects of exposure to hate speech on outgroup prejudice. Following the General Aggression Model, we suggest that frequent and repetitive exposure to hate speech leads to desensitization to this form of verbal violence and subsequently to lower evaluations of the victims and greater distancing, thus increasing outgroup prejudice. In the first survey study, we found that lower sensitivity to hate speech was a positive mediator of the relationship between frequent exposure to hate speech and ...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wiktor Soral, Micha ł Bilewicz, Mikołaj Winiewski Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Illuminating the nomological network of digital aggression: Results from two studies
We examined the nomological network surrounding digital aggression (DA), in regards to other forms of aggression/antisocial behavior and individual difference variables commonly associated with other forms of aggression/antisocial behavior. Two large samples of university students (N = 713 and 633, respectively) completed a series of questionnaires and in some cases, an additional experience sampling study. Results revealed that, in emerging adulthood, DA appears to have a unique demographic profile relative to the other forms of aggression and antisocial behavior. Results further suggested that, when examined simultan...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: S. Alexandra Burt, Saleem Alhabash Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The lone gamer: Social exclusion predicts violent video game preferences and fuels aggressive inclinations in adolescent players
Violent video game playing has been linked to a wide range of negative outcomes, especially in adolescents. In the present research, we focused on a potential determinant of adolescents’ willingness to play violent video games: social exclusion. We also tested whether exclusion can predict increased aggressiveness following violent video game playing. In two experiments, we predicted that exclusion could increase adolescents’ preferences for violent video games and interact with violent game playing fostering adolescents’ aggressive inclinations. In Study 1, 121 adolescents (aged 10–18 years) were randomly assigned...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alessandro Gabbiadini, Paolo Riva Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The lone gamer: Social exclusion predicts violent video game preferences and fuels aggressive inclinations in adolescent players
Aggressive Behavior,Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 113-124, March/April 2018. (Source: Aggressive Behavior)
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Aggressive Behavior,Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 113-124, March/April 2018. (Source: Aggressive Behavior)
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Evaluating the heat ‐aggression hypothesis: The role of temporal and social factors in predicting baseball related aggression
We examined the role that season progression and social threats play in the heat‐aggression hypothesis within Major League Baseball put forward by Reifman, Larrick, and Fein (). Box score data from 38,870 Major League Baseball games between the years of 2000 and 2015 was used to test the heat‐aggression relationship, while accounting for temporal and social factors that may be simultaneously exerting influence on player behavior. Controlling for a number of other variables, we observed that the effect of temperature on aggressive behavior is partially contingent on the point of the season in which the game took place. ...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: William L. D. Krenzer, Eric D. Splan Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Depression in early adolescence: Contributions from relational aggression and variation in the oxytocin receptor gene
Interpersonal stress arising from relational aggression (RA)—the intentional effort to harm others via rejection and exclusion—may increase risk for depression in youth. Biological vulnerabilities related to the hormone oxytocin, which affects social behavior and stress responses, may exacerbate this risk. In a community sample of 307 youth (52% female; age range = 10–14 years), we tested whether (1) the association between RA and subsequent depressive symptoms was mediated through social problems and (2) a single nucleotide polymorphism (rs53576) in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) moderated this indirect assoc...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shauna C. Kushner, Kathrin Herzhoff, Suzanne Vrshek ‐Schallhorn, Jennifer L. Tackett Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Children's hostile intent attributions and emotional distress: What do parents perceive?
Traditionally, assessments of social information processing and associated emotional distress have used children's self‐reports. We posit that additional informants, such as parents, may help illuminate the association between these variables and aggression. Our sample was composed of 222 dual‐parent families of fourth‐grade children (103 boys; 119 girls). Children responded to instrumental and relational provocations and their parents read the same scenarios and responded the way they believed their child would. Peer nominations provided aggression scores. We explored how means differed by provocation type (relation...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David A. Nelson, Christine M. Cramer, Sarah M. Coyne, Joseph A. Olsen Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Exposure to nature counteracts aggression after depletion
This study suggests that a brief period of nature exposure may restore self‐control and help depleted people regain control over aggressive urges. (Source: Aggressive Behavior)
Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yan Wang, Yihan She, Stephen M. Colarelli, Yuan Fang, Hui Meng, Qiuju Chen, Xin Zhang, Hongwei Zhu Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Transitions in sleep problems from late adolescence to young adulthood: A longitudinal analysis of the effects of peer victimization
This study investigated discrete subgroups of, changes in, and stability of sleep problems. We also examined whether peer victimization influenced sleep problem subgroups and transitions in patterns of sleep problems from late adolescence to young adulthood. Sex differences in the effects of peer victimization were also explored. In total, 1,455 male and 1,399 female adolescents from northern Taiwan participated in this longitudinal study. Latent transition analysis was used to examine changes in patterns of sleep problems and the effects of peer victimization on these changes. We identified three subgroups of sleep proble...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ling ‐Yin Chang, Hsing‐Yi Chang, Linen Nymphas Lin, Chi‐Chen Wu, Lee‐Lan Yen Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Heightened male aggression toward sexualized women following romantic rejection: The mediating role of sex goal activation
Research from a variety of disciplines suggests a positive relationship between Western cultural sexualization and women's likelihood of suffering harm. In the current experiment, 157 young men were romantically rejected by a sexualized or non‐sexualized woman then given the opportunity to blast the woman with loud bursts of white noise. We tested whether the activation of sexual goals in men would mediate the relationship between sexualization and aggressive behavior after romantic rejection. We also tested whether behaving aggressively toward a woman after romantic rejection would increase men's feelings of sexual domi...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Khandis R. Blake, Brock Bastian, Thomas F. Denson Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
A riot on campus: The effects of social identity complexity on emotions and reparative attitudes after ingroup ‐perpetrated violence
When a group commits a transgression, members who identify closely with the group often engage in defensive strategies in which they are less likely to experience guilt and shame in response to the transgression than are less identified group members. Subsequently, highly identified group members are often less willing to offer reparations to the injured parties. Because appropriate emotional responses and reparations are critical to community reconciliation, the present investigation examined whether social identity complexity—the degree to which individuals perceive their multiple social identities as interrelated—re...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - August 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kristi A. Costabile, Adrienne B. Austin Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
