TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Repulsed by violence: Disgust sensitivity buffers trait, behavioral, and daily aggression
JO  - Journal of personality and social psychology
A1  - Pond, Richard S.
A1  - Dewall, C. Nathan
A1  - Lambert, Nathaniel M.
A1  - Deckman, Timothy
A1  - Bonser, Ian M.
A1  - Fincham, Frank D.
SP  - 175
EP  - 188
VL  - 102
IS  - 1
N2  - Many models of aggression include negatively valenced emotions as common elicitors of aggressive behavior. Yet, the motivational direction of these emotions is not taken into account. The current work explored whether sensitivity to a negative emotion associated with behavioral avoidance-disgust-will predict lower levels of aggression. Five studies tested the hypothesis that disgust sensitivity predicts less aggression. In Study 1 (N = 92), disgust sensitivity predicted less trait physical and verbal aggression. In Study 2 (N = 268), participants high in disgust sensitivity were less likely to behave aggressively towards a stranger on a reaction-time task. In Study 3 (N = 51), disgust sensitivity was associated with less intimate partner violence inclinations. Study 4 (N = 247) replicated this effect longitudinally. In Study 5 (N = 166), each domain of disgust (i.e., moral, sexual, and pathogen disgust) had a buffering effect on daily aggression when daily experiences activated those specific domains. These results highlight the usefulness of considering the motivational direction of an emotion when examining its influence on aggression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3514
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0024296
ID  - ref1
ER  -