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Actor or victim of aggression: Divergent perspectives—divergent evaluations
Author(s) -
Mummendey Amélie,
Linneweber Volker,
Löschper Gabi
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420140305
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , aggression , perspective (graphical) , test (biology) , dissent , variable (mathematics) , relation (database) , action (physics) , developmental psychology , paleontology , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , database , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , political science , law , biology
The present study investigated the general assumption of perspective‐specific dissent between actor and victim in evaluating aggressive interactions. Four experimental designs were established to test the relation of evaluations between (a) actor versus victim when judging a single act, (b) initiator versus reactor when judging action and reaction, and (c) actor as well as recipient when judging own versus other's behaviour. Results of 2 × 2 ANOVAs supported the hypotheses showing a consistently more favourable evaluation of identical actions by actors versus recipients with respect to the dependent variable ‘appropriateness’. For the second dependent variable ‘aggressiveness’ differences were not significant.