Citation

Konecni VJ. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 1975; 104(1): 76-102.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/0096-3445.104.1.76

PMID

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Abstract

Exp I, with 144 high school students, evaluated the usefulness of the hydraulic, self-arousal, and dissipation of anger concepts in accounting for the "cathartic effect" in human aggression. While most of the hydraulic model's predictions were disconfirmed, aggression was superior to other activities in decreasing the amount of angered Ss' subsequent aggression. With the exception of the latter finding, the self-arousal and dissipation concepts were accurate predictors of the amount of aggression displayed by angered people. Exp II, with 100 high school students, investigated the effects of a change of mode of aggression from the interpolated to the dependent-measure stage, in conjunction with factors of the duration of the interpolated period and the amount of the interpolated aggression. Results are discussed in terms of a relationship of bidirectional causality between the level of arousal (anger) and the amount of aggression. (38 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)