Citation

Dean KE, Malamuth NM. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 1997; 72(2): 449-455.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9107010

Abstract

The authors showed that the extent to which men's personalities were self-centered rather than sensitive to others' needs moderated the connection between risk factors and sexually aggressive behavior. Men who were at risk for committing aggression but who were also sensitive to others' feelings aggressed less than the corresponding group, who had relatively self-centered personalities. However, both groups showed high levels of imagined sexual aggression. The authors suggest that imagined sexual aggression may reveal information about the presence of underlying risk factors even when actual aggression is inhibited by personality characteristics such as those studied here. The implications for therapeutic interventions of the finding of aggression attenuation are also discussed.

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