Do people aggress to improve their mood? Catharsis beliefs, affect regulation opportunity, and aggressive responding.
Do people aggress to improve their mood? Catharsis beliefs, affect regulation opportunity, and aggressive responding.
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.81.1.17
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发表时间：
2001-07
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
B. Bushman;R. Baumeister;Colleen M. Phillips
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作者：
B. Bushman;R. Baumeister;Colleen M. Phillips
人们会为了让自己感觉更好而咄咄逼人吗？我们采用了G.K.Manucia，D.J.Baumann和R.B.Cialdini(1984)使用的程序，在该程序中，一些参与者被给予虚假的情绪冰冻药片，使影响调节努力无效。在研究1中，那些被诱导相信宣泄和发泄愤怒的价值的人比对照组参与者对侮辱性批评的反应更具攻击性，但这种攻击性被冰冻情绪的药丸消除。研究2在愤怒(即表达和发泄愤怒)倾向较高的人中显示了类似的结果。研究3和研究4提供了与这些解释一致的问卷数据，研究5使用更直接与情感调节有关的措施重复了研究1和研究2的发现。综上所述，这些结果表明，许多人可能会采取攻击性来调节(改善)自己的情感状态。
Do people aggress to make themselves feel better? We adapted a procedure used by G. K. Manucia, D. J. Baumann, and R. B. Cialdini (1984), in which some participants are given a bogus mood-freezing pill that makes affect regulation efforts ineffective. In Study 1, people who had been induced to believe in the value of catharsis and venting anger responded more aggressively than did control participants to insulting criticism, but this aggression was eliminated by the mood-freezing pill. Study 2 showed similar results among people with high anger-out (i.e., expressing and venting anger) tendencies. Studies 3 and 4 provided questionnaire data consistent with these interpretations, and Study 5 replicated the findings of Studies 1 and 2 using measures more directly concerned with affect regulation. Taken together, these results suggest that many people may engage in aggression to regulate (improve) their own affective states.