Psychology 3720F/G Chapter Notes -Assault Weapon, Social Exclusion, Ostracism
12 Dec 2014
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Presence of aggression-related cues in environment promoted aggression: increases accessibility of aggression-related thoughts. Carlson et al. (1990) showed aggression-related objects still had effect when in neutral mood state: negative arousal may not be required for situational cues to have an effect. Anderson et al. (1998) reaction time paradigm, show prime word then show target word: when prime + target were aggression related, shorter rt (how fast say target out loud) Bargh & pietromonaco (1982) presented words subliminally while p"s were doing other task: later they rated how hostile a particular behaviour was, greater % of subliminal words that were aggression-related, greater hostile ratings. Hunters had greater weapons effect for assault weapons. Non-hunters had greatest effect for hunting weapons: show hunting or assault weapon, then play game where you noise blast opponent, aggressive meaning of cues depends on the viwer. Rejection is an explicit declaration that an individual/group is not wanted.
