The sex → aggression link
A perception-behavior dissociation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6201294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Mussweiler (0000-0001-9373-4668, University of Würzburg), Jens Förster |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 507-520 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.79.4.507 |
| PMID | 11045736 |
| OpenAlex | W2128258971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 62 |
| References cited | 57 |
Four studies suggest that priming may yield directionally different effects on social perception and behavior if perceptual and behavioral experiences with the stimulus diverge. This seems true for sex and aggression: Men are more likely to behave aggressively than women, whereas women are more likely to perceive aggressive behavior than men. Using a sequential priming paradigm, Study 1 demonstrates that a basic semantic link between sex and aggression exists for both genders. This link, however, has opposing behavioral and perceptual consequences for men and women. Studies 2 and 3 demonstrate that sex priming facilitates aggressive behavior only for men. Study 4 shows that only women perceive the ambiguously aggressive behavior of a male target person as more aggressive after sex priming. Thus, the perceptual and behavioral responses to sex priming are consistent with the experiences men and women typically have with sex and aggression
Aggression · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Injury prevention · Perception · Poison control · Priming (agriculture) · Social perception · Stimulus (psychology) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Neuroscience · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 62 |
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| Citations per year | 2,38 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |