Neural mechanisms underlying attribution of hostile intention in nonaggressive individuals: An ERP study

Gagnon, Jean; Aubin, Mercédès; Emond, Fannie Carrier; Derguy, Sophie; Bessette, Monique; Jolicœur, Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.08.007

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“…As mentioned above, there are two reasons can explain why hostile attribution bias can predict the frequency of angry rumination. First, hostile attribution bias can exacerbate the frequency of rumination on angry events [10, 29]. Second, hostile attribution bias and angry rumination both refer to thinking about the reasons of the provoking event, and the ambiguity of the situation and uncertainty of judgment make individuals more easily form hostile attributions and habitually ruminate on the reasons for the angry events [16].…”

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Hostile attribution bias and angry rumination: A longitudinal study of undergraduate students

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Angry rumination and hostile attribution bias are important cognitive factors of aggression. Although prior theoretical models of aggression suggest that aggressive cognitive factors may influence each other, there are no studies examining the longitudinal relationship between angry rumination and hostile attribution bias. The present study used cross-lagged structural equation modeling to explore the longitudinal mutual relationship between hostile attribution bias and angry rumination; 941 undergraduate students (38.5% male) completed questionnaires assessing the variables at two time points. The results indicate that hostile attribution bias showed a small but statistically significant effect on angry rumination 6 months later, and angry rumination showed a quite small but marginally significant effect on hostile attribution bias across time. The present study supports the idea that hostile attribution bias influences angry rumination, and argue that the relationship between angry rumination and hostile attribution bias may be mutual. Additionally, the results suggest that there may be a causal relation of different aggression-related cognitive factors.

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Hostile attribution bias and angry rumination: A longitudinal study of undergraduate students

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“…A recent study brought partial support to this model by showing that perceived social rejection vs. inclusion had a significant effect on RPI performance as a function of the participants’ frequency of use of splitting [85]. Other studies supported the existence of the model’s implicit and emotional pathway, by showing an association between an implicit measure of the BPD self-concept with a projective instrument and BDP impulsivity [86], as well as an association between an implicit measure of hostile cognitions or concept of self with event-related potentials and aggression [87,88,89]. More studies are in need to verify this model and particularly if the BPD self-concept and splitting dimensions of personality can be specifically related to inhibition processes.…”

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The Modulating Role of Self-Referential Stimuli and Processes in the Effect of Stress and Negative Emotion on Inhibition Processes in Borderline Personality Disorder: Proposition of a Model to Integrate the Self-Concept and Inhibition Processes

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Impulsivity is an important clinical and diagnostic feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Even though it has been reported that BPD individuals’ inhibition performance is significantly reduced in the context of negative emotion or stress, this literature shows mixed results, raising questions about the possible role played by other factors. Winter (2016) proposed that negative emotion stimuli can be more disruptive for BPD individuals’ attention control performance because they induce higher distractibility self-referential processes. This article aimed to systematically review the literature regarding the effect of stress and negative emotions on three main inhibition processes—prepotent response inhibition, resistance to distractor interference, and resistance to proactive interference—in BPD and to verify the putative modulating role of self-referential stimuli and processes on these inhibition processes. All English and French experimental studies published until August 2018 were searched in PsychINFO and PubMED databases. The following keywords were used: “borderline* AND inhibit* OR interference* OR forget* OR task* AND emotion* OR stress* OR affect*”. A total of 1215 articles were included in the study. After full text revision, twenty-six papers were selected for review. The results of this review indicate that when stimuli or procedures involve self-reference stimuli or processes, BPD individuals’ performance seems to be more disrupted in all three inhibition processes. A model based on Winter’s and Kernberg’s models is proposed with the aim of integrating the self-concept with inhibition processes in BPD.

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“…Taken together, these results demonstrate the need for further work investigating the cognitive mechanisms which underlie both attention and interpretation processes. For instance, Gagnon and colleagues have assessed the neural correlates of interpretation bias in aggression (Gagnon et al, 2016;Gagnon et al, 2017). They found that across both aggressive and non-aggressive samples, during a sentence completion task, participants showed increased N400 amplitude in response to non-hostile target words that violated the expectations of hostile scenarios.…”

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Physical aggression and attentional bias to angry faces: An event related potential study

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This study aimed to identify the neural correlates of aggression-related attentional selectivity to angry faces in physical aggression. Physical aggression in a non-clinical sample of young men (N = 36) was measured using an aggression questionnaire. Visual attentional bias to angry faces was assessed using a dot-probe task during which angry and neutral faces were presented simultaneously, and EEG was recorded. Median split and correlational analyses were conducted to assess the relationship between physical aggression and attentional bias. Behavioural results indicated that higher levels of physical aggression were associated with greater attentional bias to angry faces. ERP results revealed an interaction where males with higher physical aggression had undifferentiated P3 amplitudes to angry and neutral trials, whereas low physical aggression males exhibited greater P3 amplitude to angry than to neutral trials (effect of probe congruency). Increased levels of physical aggression were also significantly correlated with increased P3 amplitude to probes replacing neutral faces, relative to angry faces. It was concluded that the aggressive males selectively attend to angry faces, and that attentional bias is characterized by undifferentiated P3 amplitude. We propose that this results from an inferior ability to downregulate competing angry face distractors when responding to probes replacing neutral faces (as reflected by the P3 response). These findings indicate that attentional bias to angry faces in individuals with higher physical aggression is characterized by a distinctive ERP signature; this could inform the development of therapeutic interventions seeking to reduce aggression.

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Neural mechanisms underlying attribution of hostile intention in nonaggressive individuals: An ERP study

Cited by 21 publications

References 37 publications

Hostile attribution bias and angry rumination: A longitudinal study of undergraduate students

Hostile attribution bias and angry rumination: A longitudinal study of undergraduate students

The Modulating Role of Self-Referential Stimuli and Processes in the Effect of Stress and Negative Emotion on Inhibition Processes in Borderline Personality Disorder: Proposition of a Model to Integrate the Self-Concept and Inhibition Processes

Physical aggression and attentional bias to angry faces: An event related potential study

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