When Aggressive Individuals See the World More Accurately: The Case of Perceptual Sensitivity to Subtle Facial Expressions of Anger  

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Wilkowski, Benjamin M. ; Robinson, Michael D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 38 no. 4 (Apr. 2012), page 540-553.
Topik: Aggression; Facial Expressions; Anger; Emotion Perception; Signal Detection
Fulltext: PSPB_38_04_540.pdf (670.54KB)

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Previous research has suggested that aggressive individuals exhibit a bias to perceive non-angry expressions as angry. Another line of thinking, however, posits that aggression is a learned response to hostile environments and should be linked to social-cognitive skills suited to such environments. If so, aggressive individuals may exhibit greater perceptual sensitivity to subtle facial cues of anger. Three studies were conducted to test this proposal. In them, participants’ ability to discriminate between subtly different intensities of facial anger was tested. Aggressive participants generally displayed greater perceptual sensitivity to subtle cues of facial anger. This pattern could not be explained in terms of response bias and was specific to angry expressions. The results thus support the idea that aggression is associated with social-cognitive skills rather than bias and ineptitude.

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