@article{ref1,
title="It is more than thought that counts: the role of readiness for aggression in the relationship between ostracism and displaced aggression",
journal="Current psychology",
year="2017",
author="Rajchert, Joanna and Konopka, Karolina and Huesmann, L. Rowell",
volume="36",
number="3",
pages="417-427",
abstract="Research has shown that ostracism results in aggressive behavior towards the ostracising other, but also causes displaced aggression-aggression directed towards an innocent person. Our study investigated whether displaced aggressive responses to ostracism were increased by three types of aggression proneness (readiness for aggression) based on different mechanisms: emotional-impulsive, habitual-cognitive or personality-immanent. Participants (n = 118) played a Cyberball game in which they were either excluded or included, next prepared a hot sauce sample for another person as an indicator of aggression and completed the Readiness for Interpersonal Aggression Inventory. <br><br>RESULTS showed that ostracism evoked more aggression in participants with high rather than with low emotional-impulsive readiness for aggression. Only this type of readiness moderated the ostracism-aggression relationship indicating that mostly affective mechanisms induce displaced aggressive responses to exclusion.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1046-1310",
doi="10.1007/s12144-016-9430-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-016-9430-6"
}