Do people aggress to improve their mood? Catharsis beliefs, affect regulation opportunity, and aggressive responding
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6204045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brad J Bushman (0000-0002-1266-5101, Iowa State University), Roy F Baumeister (0000-0003-1413-3296), Collen M Phillips |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-32 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| 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//0022-3514.81.1.17 |
| PMID | 11474722 |
| OpenAlex | W4248017096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 136 |
| References cited | 29 |
Do people aggress to make themselves feel better? We adapted a procedure used by G. K. Manucia, D. J. Baumann, and R. B. Cialdini (1984), in which some participants are given a bogus mood-freezing pill that makes affect regulation efforts ineffective. In Study 1, people who had been induced to believe in the value of catharsis and venting anger responded more aggressively than did control participants to insulting criticism, but this aggression was eliminated by the mood-freezing pill. Study 2 showed similar results among people with high anger-out (i.e., expressing and venting anger) tendencies. Studies 3 and 4 provided questionnaire data consistent with these interpretations, and Study 5 replicated the findings of Studies 1 and 2 using measures more directly concerned with affect regulation. Taken together, these results suggest that many people may engage in aggression to regulate (improve) their own affective states
Affect (linguistics · Affect regulation · Aggression · Anger · Catharsis · Hostility · Medical emergency · Mood · Poison control · Psychoanalysis · Suicide prevention · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Clinical Psychology · Emotional Intelligence and Performance · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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