Personality, Antisocial Thoughts, & Aggression

个性、反社会思想、

• 批准号: 6888959
• 负责人: MICHAEL D ROBINSON
• 金额: $ 15.86万
• 依托单位: NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-16 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6888959
• 关键词: aggression; angers; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; cues; emotions; experience; human subject; mass information media; memory; outcomes research; personality; psychological stressor; psychological tests; stimulus /response; suggestion; thinking; violence

DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): Antisocial thoughts, such as those related to hurting people, may play a key role in causing aggressive behavior. For example, the prominent explanation for the effect of media violence on aggression proposes that media violence increases aggression because it primes or activates thoughts centered around antisocial actions. Once primed, such antisocial thoughts are more likely to guide in the interpretation of new events as well as the selection of one's actions. The proposed research builds on such a cognitive explanation for aggression. The project will examine individual differences in aggression on the basis of the speed with which people can categorize prosocial and antisocial words. In addition, the project will also examine individual differences in the extent to which one antisocial concept primes another antisocial concept, as well as the extent to which distress and antisocial thoughts are connected. These differences in cognitive processes between individuals will be correlated with aggression-related traits as well as with behavior and experience in everyday life. The project will also involve using cognitive measures to predict aggressive behaviors in the laboratory, particularly following exposure to media violence and manipulations of psychological distress. Finally, the project proposes to extend the cognitive analysis of aggression by manipulating the cognitive processes that may give rise to aggressive behavior. Preliminary findings suggest that such research may reveal new insights about the causes, correlates, and prevention of aggression. For this reason, this project will have implications for the assessment and treatment of aggressive-prone individuals.

描述（由研究者提供）：反社会思想，如与伤害他人有关的思想，可能在导致攻击性行为方面发挥关键作用。例如，关于媒体暴力对攻击性的影响的突出解释提出，媒体暴力增加了攻击性，因为它引发或激活了以反社会行为为中心的思想。一旦被激发，这种反社会的想法更有可能指导对新事件的解释以及对个人行为的选择。拟议中的研究建立在对攻击性的认知解释之上。该项目将根据人们对亲社会和反社会词汇进行分类的速度来研究攻击性的个体差异。此外，该项目还将研究一个反社会概念引发另一个反社会概念的程度的个体差异，以及痛苦和反社会思想的联系程度。个体之间认知过程的这些差异将与攻击相关的特征以及日常生活中的行为和经验相关。该项目还将涉及使用认知测量来预测实验室中的攻击行为，特别是在暴露于媒体暴力和心理困扰的操纵之后。最后，该项目建议通过操纵可能引起攻击行为的认知过程来扩展对攻击的认知分析。初步研究结果表明，这种研究可能会揭示有关侵略的原因，相关因素和预防的新见解。因此，该项目将对评估和治疗有攻击倾向的个人产生影响。