Catharsis, aggression, and persuasive influence: Self-fulfilling or self-defeating prophecies?
Catharsis, aggression, and persuasive influence: Self-fulfilling or self-defeating prophecies?
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.76.3.367
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发表时间：
1999-03-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Stack, AD
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作者：
Bushman, BJ;Baumeister, RF;Stack, AD
媒体对宣泄的支持是否会产生一种自我实现或自我挫败的预言？在第一项研究中，阅读了一条“前癌症”信息（声称攻击性行为是放松和减少愤怒的好方法）的参与者随后表达了比阅读反癌症信息的参与者更强烈的打沙袋的愿望。在研究2中，参与者阅读了相同的信息，然后真的打了一个出气筒。这次演习之后，有机会进行实验室侵略。与宣泄假说和自我实现的预言相反，阅读前癌症信息然后击打出气筒的人随后比阅读反癌症信息的人更具攻击性。
Does media endorsement for catharsis produce a self-fulfilling or a self-defeating prophecy? In Study 1, participants who read a procatharsis message (claiming that aggressive action is a good way to relax and reduce anger) subsequently expressed a greater desire to hit a punching bag than did participants who read an anticatharsis message. In Study 2, participants read the same messages and then actually did hit a punching bag. This exercise was followed by an opportunity to engage in laboratory aggression. Contrary to the catharsis hypothesis and to the self-fulfilling prophecy prediction, people who read the procatharsis message and then hit the punching bag were subsequently more aggressive than were people who read the anticatharsis message.