Ayduk Ozlem, Gyurak Anett, Luerssen Anna
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
J Exp Soc Psychol. 2008 May 1;44(3):775-782. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.07.004.
Prior research shows that social rejection elicits aggression. In this study, we investigated whether this is moderated by individual differences in Rejection Sensitivity (RS) - a processing disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive and overreact to rejection. Participants (N = 129) took part in a purported web-based social interaction in which they were either rejected or not by a potential partner. Subsequently, they were given the opportunity to allocate hot sauce to the perpetrator, knowing that he/she disliked spicy food. Amount of hot sauce was used as a behavioral index of aggression. Participants in the rejection condition allocated more hot sauce to the perpetrator than those in the control condition. However, RS moderated this effect such that rejection elicited aggression in high but not in low RS people. These results held after controlling for trait neuroticism. Implications of these findings for understanding how and why rejection elicits aggression are discussed.
先前的研究表明，社会排斥会引发攻击性。在本研究中，我们调查了这一现象是否会受到拒绝敏感性（RS）个体差异的调节——RS是一种加工倾向，即焦虑地预期、容易察觉到拒绝并对其过度反应。参与者（N = 129）参与了一个所谓的基于网络的社交互动，在互动中他们要么被潜在伙伴拒绝，要么未被拒绝。随后，他们有机会给“肇事者”分配辣酱，因为他们知道“肇事者”不喜欢辛辣食物。辣酱的分配量被用作攻击性的行为指标。被拒绝组的参与者比对照组的参与者给“肇事者”分配了更多的辣酱。然而，RS调节了这一效应，即拒绝只会在高RS人群中引发攻击性，而在低RS人群中则不会。在控制了特质神经质后，这些结果依然成立。本文讨论了这些发现对于理解拒绝如何以及为何会引发攻击性的意义。
