Verona Edelyn, Curtin John J
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61820, USA.
Emotion. 2006 Feb;6(1):115-24. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.1.115.
The negative affective priming of aggression was examined across different aversive contexts (general stress exposure and frustration) with a laboratory aggression paradigm that measured the intensity of shocks participants delivered to a putative employee. Participants' emotional responses were gauged via startle eyeblink reactions and self-report mood ratings. Aside from gender differences in overall aggression, men but not women exposed to general stress showed significant increases in aggression across blocks. However, frustration produced increases in aggression in both genders. Although both genders showed robust startle increases during stress, startle activation was related to increases in aggression in men and decreases in aggression in women. These findings suggest that general stress and experiences of negative emotion trigger physical aggressive responses more strongly in men than in women.
利用一种实验室攻击范式，在不同的厌恶情境（一般压力暴露和挫折）下研究了攻击行为的负性情感启动，该范式测量了参与者对一名假定员工施加电击的强度。通过惊吓眨眼反应和自我报告的情绪评分来衡量参与者的情绪反应。除了在总体攻击行为上的性别差异外，暴露于一般压力下的男性而非女性在各阶段的攻击行为有显著增加。然而，挫折会使男女双方的攻击行为都增加。尽管在压力期间男女双方的惊吓反应都有显著增强，但惊吓激活与男性攻击行为的增加以及女性攻击行为的减少有关。这些发现表明，一般压力和负面情绪体验在男性中比在女性中更强烈地引发身体攻击反应。
