TY - JOUR
T1 - Hostile attribution bias in impulsive and premeditated aggression
AU - Helfritz-Sinville, Laura E.
AU - Stanford, Matthew S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Dreyfus Health Foundation at the Rogosin Institute, New York Hospital—Cornell Medical Center.
Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Previous research has demonstrated an association between trait aggression and hostile attribution bias, or the tendency to interpret others' actions as hostile, yet little research has been devoted to exploring its role in subtypes of aggression. We used hypothetical vignettes to explore hostile attribution bias in impulsive aggressors, premeditated aggressors, and non-aggressive controls. Contrary to our prediction that impulsive aggressors would be more prone to hostile attribution bias, we did not observe direct evidence of this; however, a bias was indirectly evident in the behavior of both types of aggressors. Although they did not specifically articulate feeling as though ambiguous acts were committed with hostile intent, their verbal and physical reactions indicated otherwise. Future research should focus on delineating the full sequence of social cognitions that occur during aggressive encounters in order to determine whether these reactions were produced by common or divergent motivations.
AB - Previous research has demonstrated an association between trait aggression and hostile attribution bias, or the tendency to interpret others' actions as hostile, yet little research has been devoted to exploring its role in subtypes of aggression. We used hypothetical vignettes to explore hostile attribution bias in impulsive aggressors, premeditated aggressors, and non-aggressive controls. Contrary to our prediction that impulsive aggressors would be more prone to hostile attribution bias, we did not observe direct evidence of this; however, a bias was indirectly evident in the behavior of both types of aggressors. Although they did not specifically articulate feeling as though ambiguous acts were committed with hostile intent, their verbal and physical reactions indicated otherwise. Future research should focus on delineating the full sequence of social cognitions that occur during aggressive encounters in order to determine whether these reactions were produced by common or divergent motivations.
KW - Aggression
KW - Hostile attribution bias
KW - Hostile attributional bias
KW - Impulsive aggression
KW - Premeditated aggression
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2013.08.017
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2013.08.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84885472482
VL - 56
SP - 45
EP - 50
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
IS - 1
ER -