How does cognitive control reduce anger and aggression? The role of conflict monitoring and forgiveness processes.
How does cognitive control reduce anger and aggression? The role of conflict monitoring and forgiveness processes.
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DOI：
10.1037/a0018962
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发表时间：
2010-05
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Benjamin M Wilkowski;Michael D. Robinson;Wendy Troop-Gordon
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作者：
Benjamin M Wilkowski;Michael D. Robinson;Wendy Troop-Gordon
众所周知，超强的认知控制能力与较低水平的愤怒和攻击性有关。然而，在以前的研究中，这种关系背后的确切情绪调节操作一直没有得到充分的说明和探索。借鉴认知控制的神经心理学模型，作者提出，可以在敌对环境中招募有限的能力资源来促进宽恕过程。两项研究的结果支持这一建议。在所有研究中，对敌意引发的认知控制的个体差异进行了隐含的评估。在研究1中，敌意引发的认知控制预测了对实验室挑衅的反应较少的攻击性行为。此外，宽恕是这些影响的中介。在研究2中，敌意引发的认知控制预测了参与者对日常生活中的挑衅行为的宽恕，以及随后愤怒的减少。总而言之，这些结果有助于系统地理解认知控制如何导致较低水平的愤怒和攻击性。
It is well-established that superior cognitive control abilities are associated with lower levels of anger and aggression. However, the precise emotion regulation operations underlying this relationship have been underspecified and underexplored in previous research. Drawing on neuropsychological models of cognitive control, the authors propose that limited capacity resources can be recruited within a hostile situation to promote a process of forgiveness. The results of 2 studies supported this proposal. Across studies, individual differences in hostility-primed cognitive control were assessed implicitly. In Study 1, hostility-primed cognitive control predicted less aggressive behavior in response to a laboratory provocation. Moreover, forgiveness mediated these effects. In Study 2, hostility-primed cognitive control predicted forgiveness of provocations in participants' daily lives and subsequent reductions in anger. In sum, the results contribute to a systematic understanding of how cognitive control leads to lower levels of anger and aggression.