Personality, Antisocial Thoughts, & Aggression

个性、反社会思想、

基本信息

批准号：
7065165
负责人：
MICHAEL D ROBINSON
金额：
$ 15.49万
依托单位：
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
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

项目摘要

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，例如与伤害人有关的思想，可能在引起侵略行为方面发挥关键作用。例如，对媒体暴力对侵略的影响的主要解释表明，媒体暴力会增加侵略性，因为它会引起侵略性或激活围绕反社会行动的思想。一旦启动，这种反社会思想就更有可能指导新事件的解释以及选择一个人的行动。拟议的研究以这种侵略性的认知解释为基础。该项目将根据人们可以对亲社会和反社会词进行分类的速度来检查侵略性的个体差异。此外，该项目还将检查一个反社会概念的多样性的个体差异，另一种反社会概念以及遇险和反社会思想相关的程度。个体之间认知过程中的这些差异将与与侵略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措施来预测实验室的侵略行为，尤其是在暴露于媒体暴力和对心理困扰的操纵之后。最后，该项目提议通过操纵可能导致侵略行为的认知过程来扩展侵略性的认知分析。初步发现表明，此类研究可能会揭示有关侵略的原因，相关和预防的新见解。因此，该项目将对侵略性容易发生个人的评估和治疗产生影响。