@article{ref1,
title="Physical/verbal aggression: sex differences in style",
journal="Journal of personality",
year="1978",
author="Shope, G. L. and Hedrick, T. E. and Geen, R. G.",
volume="46",
number="1",
pages="23-42",
abstract="Two studies exploring the use of physical/verbal aggression are reported, the first using women and the second using men as subjects. Both studies allowed subjects to choose between and control the intensity of two response modes: verbal aggression (insults) and physical aggression (electric shock). Aggressive style was investigated over two levels of arousal, sex of experimenter, and sex of provocateur-victim. Results indicated that women aggressed discriminatively in the verbal mode as a function of their arousal, while men were capable of aggressing discriminatively in both the verbal and physical modes. Men who had been disagreed with and punished by a female victim-provocateur in the presence of a male experimenter or by a male victim in the presence of a male experimenter demonstrated high levels of physical aggression compared to the other groups.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3506",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}