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The interactive relations between trait hostility, pain, and aggressive thoughts
Author(s) -
Anderson Kathryn B.,
Anderson Craig A.,
Dill Karen E.,
Deuser William E.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
aggressive behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.223
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1098-2337
pISSN - 0096-140X
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1998)24:3<161::aid-ab1>3.0.co;2-o
Subject(s) - hostility , psychology , trait , aggression , arousal , affect (linguistics) , cognition , situational ethics , poison control , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , communication , computer science , programming language
A recent model of affective aggression [Anderson et al., 1996] proposes that individual differences and situational factors can affect aggressive behavior through cognitive, affective, and arousal pathways. An experiment tested the relations of trait hostility and physical pain to aggressive thoughts (the cognitive path) and state hostility (the affective path). The experiment found an interaction between pain and trait hostility on aggressive thoughts. Trait hostile participants who experienced pain rated ambiguous words (e.g., alley) as more similar to aggressive words (e.g., hit) than did the other groups. State hostility was positively related to trait hostility and was increased by the experience of pain. These results demonstrate the heuristic utility of the Anderson et al. Model. Aggr. Behav. 24:161–171, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.