Aggression and Heat: The Mediating Role of Negative Affect
Aggression and Heat: The Mediating Role of Negative Affect
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攻击性和热度：负面情绪的中介作用
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1976
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通讯作者：
R. Baron
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作者：
P. Bell;R. Baron
六十四名本科生男性从态度相似或不同的陌生人那里得到了非常积极或非常消极的个人评价，然后有机会通过电击的方式攻击这个人。一半人在舒适凉爽的环境条件下接受这些刺激，而一半人则在不舒服的炎热条件下接受这些刺激。据预测，随着实验条件在受试者中引起的负面影响程度增加到中等水平，对受害者的攻击性将会增加，但超过这一点，负面影响的进一步增加实际上往往会抑制这种行为。负面情绪和攻击性之间的显着（p<0.007）曲线关系支持了这些预测，并表明这种影响介导了高环境温度对人类攻击性的影响。
Sixty-four undergraduate males received either very postive or very negative personal evaluations from an attitudinally similar or dissimilar stranger, and were then given an opportunity to aggress against this person by means of electric shock. Half were exposed to these stimuli under comfortably cool environmental conditions, while half were so treated under uncomfortably hot conditions. It was predicted that aggression toward the victim would increase as the degree of negative affect induced among subjects by the experimental conditions increased up to moderate levels, but that beyond this point, further increments in negative affect would actually tend to inhibit such behavior. A significant (p lt 0.007) curvilinear relationship between negative affect and aggression supported these predictions, and suggested that such affect mediates the influence of high ambient temperatures on human aggression.