Relationships Between Hostile Attribution Bias, Negative Urgency, and Reactive Aggression

Gagnon, Jean; Rochat, Lucien

doi:10.1027/1614-0001/a000238

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“…The N2 difference wave is considered to be an indicator of response conflict and attentional engagement. Angry expressions are often processed preferentially or automatically compared to happy expressions in reactively aggressive adolescents (Qiu et al, 2016;Gagnon and Rochat, 2017). The psychological processing of the response conflicts and attentional engagement were likely to be reduced for angry expressions as compared to happy expression because the brain automatically diverted attention to the angry expressions.…”

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Reactive Aggression Affects Response Inhibition to Angry Expressions in Adolescents: An Event-Related Potential Study Using the Emotional Go/No-Go Paradigm

Sun

Niu

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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Although it is well established that response inhibition to angry expressions is impaired among reactively aggressive adolescents, the cognitive processes underlying this effect remain unclear. The main goal of our study was to investigate the time course of response inhibition to angry expressions in reactively aggressive adolescents compared to controls. In total, 23 reactively aggressive adolescents and 23 control adolescents were recruited to participate in an event-related potential (ERP) study measuring response inhibition to angry expressions with an emotional Go/No-go paradigm. The results showed that when presented angry or happy expressions, reactively aggressive adolescents showed a smaller No-go P3 effect than the control group. These results indicate that response inhibition to angry expressions in reactively aggressive adolescents is impaired at the later stage of the actual inhibitory control. The characteristics of response inhibition to happy expressions in reactively aggressive adolescents are similar to those in response to angry expressions.

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Reactive Aggression Affects Response Inhibition to Angry Expressions in Adolescents: An Event-Related Potential Study Using the Emotional Go/No-Go Paradigm

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Niu

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Impairments in the processing of facial emotion have been found in irritable youth 6 and, in adults, hostile attribution biases to social information processing were associated with impulsive aggression, which is closely related to irritability. 7 Clearly, the relationship between the construct of social processes, in particular facial and non-facial communication, and irritability requires further examination. This is particularly important because findings in this domain may disentangle the distinct contributions of irritability and underlying psychiatric disorders to deficits in social information processing known to occur throughout various psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar disorder.…”

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Irritability through Research Domain Criteria: an opportunity for transdiagnostic conceptualisation

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Irritability is a transdiagnostic phenomenon that, despite its ubiquity and significant impact, is poorly conceptualised, defined and measured. As it lacks specificity, efforts to examine irritability in adults by using a diagnostic category perspective have been hamstrung. Therefore, using a Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) approach to examine irritability in adults, which spans many constructs and domains, may have a better chance of yielding underlying mechanisms that can then be mapped onto various diagnostic categories. Recently, a model has been proposed for irritability in children and adolescents that uses the RDoC framework; however, this model, which accounts for chronic, persistent irritability, may not necessarily transpose to adults. Therefore, use of the RDoC framework to examine irritability in adults is urgently needed, as it may shed light on this currently amorphous phenomenon and the many disorders within which it operates.

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“…Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ; Raine et al, 2006). The French adapted version of the RPQ (Gagnon & Rochat, 2016) contains 23 items with participants rating their reactions to aggressive situations on a 3-point Likert scale from never to always (0-2). The reactive aggression subscale contains 11 items (e.g., How often have you reacted angrily when provoked by others) and the proactive 12 items (e.g., How often have you threatened and bullied someone).…”

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An ERP study on hostile attribution bias in aggressive and nonaggressive individuals

Gagnon

Aubin

Emond

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Hostile attribution bias (e.g., tendency to interpret the intention of others as hostile in ambiguous social contexts) has been associated with impulsive aggression in adults, but the results are mixed and the complete sequence of hostile inferential processes leading to aggression has not been investigated yet. The goal of this event-related brain potentials (ERPs) study was to track the neural activity associated with the violation of expectations about hostile versus nonhostile intentions in aggressive and nonaggressive individuals and examine how this neural activity relates to self-reported hostile attributional bias and impulsive aggression in real life. To this end, scenarios with a hostile versus nonhostile social context followed by a character's ambiguous aversive behavior were presented to readers, and ERPs to critical words that specified the hostile versus nonhostile intent behind the behavior were analysed. Thirty-seven aggressive and fifty nonaggressive individuals participated in the study. The presentation of a critical word that violated hostile expectation caused an N400 response that was significantly larger in aggressive than nonaggressive individuals. Results also showed an enhanced late positive potential-like component in aggressive individuals when hostile intention scenarios took place in a nonhostile context, which is associated with impulsive aggression in real life even after having controlled for the effect of self-reported hostile attributional bias. The Hostile Expectancy Violation paradigm evaluated in this study represents a promising tool to investigate the relationship between the online processing of hostile intent in others and impulsive aggression. Aggr. Behav. 43:217-229, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Relationships Between Hostile Attribution Bias, Negative Urgency, and Reactive Aggression

Cited by 47 publications

References 45 publications

Reactive Aggression Affects Response Inhibition to Angry Expressions in Adolescents: An Event-Related Potential Study Using the Emotional Go/No-Go Paradigm

Reactive Aggression Affects Response Inhibition to Angry Expressions in Adolescents: An Event-Related Potential Study Using the Emotional Go/No-Go Paradigm

Irritability through Research Domain Criteria: an opportunity for transdiagnostic conceptualisation

An ERP study on hostile attribution bias in aggressive and nonaggressive individuals

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