Instigation to aggress and escalation of aggression examined from a personological perspective: The role of irritability and of emotional susceptibility

Caprara, G. V.; Renzi, Paolo; Alcini, P.; Imperio, G. D'; Travaglia, G.

doi:10.1002/1098-2337(1983)9:4<345::aid-ab2480090410>3.0.co;2-6

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“…In one investigation, Caprara et al (1983) manipulated provocation by providing participants with either positive or negative feedback regarding their performance on an intelligence test and then gave participants an opportunity to administer electric shocks to a confederate during a learning task. Caprara et al found that emotional susceptibility interacted with the provoking feedback; the magnitude of the difference in aggressive behavior between participants who scored high versus low in emotional susceptibility was greater under provoking than under neutral conditions.…”

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Personality and aggressive behavior under provoking and neutral conditions: A meta-analytic review.

Bettencourt

Talley

Benjamin

et al. 2006

Psychological Bulletin

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The authors conducted a comprehensive review to understand the relation between personality and aggressive behavior, under provoking and nonprovoking conditions. The qualitative review revealed that some personality variables influenced aggressive behavior under both neutral and provocation conditions, whereas others influenced aggressive behavior only under provocation. Studies that assessed personality variables and that directly measured aggressive behavior were included in the quantitative review. Analyses revealed that trait aggressiveness and trait irritability influenced aggressive behavior under both provoking and neutral conditions but that other personality variables (e.g., trait anger, Type A personality, dissipation-rumination) influenced aggressive behavior only under provoking conditions. The authors discuss possible relations between these patterns of aggressive behavior and the personality dimensions of Agreeableness and Neuroticism and consider implications for theories of aggression.Keywords: aggressive behavior, personality traits, Agreeableness, NeuroticismWith a few notable exceptions (e.g., Freud, 1929Freud, /1962, early theorizing and research on aggressive behavior focused on the effects of situational factors (e.g., Bandura, 1973;Dollard, Doob, Miller, Mowrer, & Sears, 1939). Empirical studies and metaanalytic reviews have shown that the presence of violent cues (e.g.,

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Section: Emotional Susceptibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality and aggressive behavior under provoking and neutral conditions: A meta-analytic review.

Bettencourt

Talley

Benjamin

et al. 2006

Psychological Bulletin

543

432

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“…Participants also completed a 12-item questionnaire aimed at assessing their susceptibility to the mood-induction procedure. This instrument included a measure of emotional susceptibility (Caprara, Renzi, Alcini, D'Imperio, & Travaglia, 1983) and emotional contagion. Finally, qualitative measures based on participant observation and debriefing were used to verify both the effectiveness of emotional induction and whether subjects believed that the two tasks were entirely separate experiments.…”

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Effects of approach and withdrawal motivation on interactive economic decisions

Harlé

Sanfey

2010

Cognition & Emotion

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Although recent economic models of human decision making have recognised the role of emotion as an important biasing factor, the impact of incidental emotion on decisions has remained poorly explored. To address this question, we jointly explored the role of emotional valence (i.e., positive vs. negative) and motivational direction (i.e., approach vs. avoidance) on performance in a well-known economic task, the Ultimatum Game. Participants had to either accept or reject monetary offers from other players, offers that vary in their degree of unfairness. A main effect of motivational direction, but not valence, was observed, with withdrawal-based emotion (disgust and serenity) prompting more rejections relative to approach-based emotion (anger and amusement) and a neutral state. These results further confirm that subtle incidental moods can bias decision making, and suggest that motivational state may be a useful framework to study such decisions. Implications with regard to emotion, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology are discussed.

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“…Anderson & Bushman, 2002). For example, Felsten and Hill (1999) found that high hostility participants reported greater anger than low hostility participants only after provocation, and Caprara, Renzi, Alcini, D'Imperio, and Travaglia (1983) found that highly irritable participants delivered higher levels of shock to an innocent person than did low irritable participants only after they received a blow to their feelings of self-worth. Finally, K. B.…”

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Trait Aggressiveness and Situational Provocation: A Test of the Traits as Situational Sensitivities (TASS) Model

Marshall

Brown

2006

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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In this article, the authors propose and test an interactionist model of personality functioning. The model maintains that many traits function in a threshold-like manner, such that less situational strength is needed to evoke a trait-relevant response in people who are high on the trait than in those who are low on the trait. Because of these different sensitivities, people who are high on a trait are more reactive to moderate provocation than are those who are low on a trait, but the opposite is true when strong provocation is compared to moderate provocation. Three studies are reported showing how the model can be used to understand the nature of aggression.

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Instigation to aggress and escalation of aggression examined from a personological perspective: The role of irritability and of emotional susceptibility

Cited by 59 publications

References 3 publications

Personality and aggressive behavior under provoking and neutral conditions: A meta-analytic review.

Personality and aggressive behavior under provoking and neutral conditions: A meta-analytic review.

Effects of approach and withdrawal motivation on interactive economic decisions

Trait Aggressiveness and Situational Provocation: A Test of the Traits as Situational Sensitivities (TASS) Model

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