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Does Aggressive Trait Induce Implicit Aggression among College Students? Priming Effect of Violent Stimuli and Aggressive Words

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  • Zhang Qian
  • Jing-Jin Tian
  • Li Yang
  • Da-Jun Zhang

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The purpose of the study was to examine the priming effect of exposure to violent pictures on implicitaggression in a sample of 94 Chinese college students, and to verify the validity of General Aggression Model(GAM) and Cognitive New-association Model (CNM). Violent and nonviolent pictures, as well as aggressiveand nonaggressive words, were used as primes to explore the relationship between violent stimuli and implicitaggression of college students by employing modified Go-Nogo task. The results suggested that the primingeffect of exposure to violent pictures on participants was obvious, and that brief exposure to violent picturesincreased implicit aggression. Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) found that interaction betweenstimuli type (violent vs. nonviolent) and target word (aggressive vs. nonaggressive) was significant, implyingthat violent stimuli primed implicit aggression among college students. Further simple effect analysis showedthat implicit aggression was significantly primed by violent stimuli for participants with high aggressiveness(HA) and moderate aggressiveness (MA), but not for participants with low aggressiveness (LA). This resultshould be cautiously explained that only implicit aggression of college students with HA and MA wassignificantly primed by violent stimuli.

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  • Zhang Qian & Jing-Jin Tian & Li Yang & Da-Jun Zhang, 2013. "Does Aggressive Trait Induce Implicit Aggression among College Students? Priming Effect of Violent Stimuli and Aggressive Words," International Journal of Psychological Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 5(3), pages 1-1, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:ijpsjl:v:5:y:2013:i:3:p:1
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