TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1975//
TI  - Erotic stimuli and aggression
JO  - Journal of personality and social psychology
A1  - Donnerstein, Edward
A1  - Donnerstein, Marcia
A1  - Evans, Ronald
SP  - 237
EP  - 244
VL  - 32
IS  - 2
N2  - Attempted to reconcile previous results on the relationship of erotic stimuli and aggression. 81 male undergraduates were either insulted or not insulted prior or subsequent to observing erotic stimuli of varying levels of arousal inducements. It was found, in support of prior research, that mildly erotic stimuli had an inhibiting effect on aggression when viewed subsequent to anger arousal, whereas highly erotic stimuli tended to maintain aggression at a level similar to nonerotic exposure. Prior viewing of erotic stimuli, however, had a facilitative effect on aggressive behavior. It is proposed that erotic stimuli have 2 components (arousal and attentional shift) that interact with anger arousal to either inhibit or facilitate aggressive behavior. Implications of this 2-component system for future research on erotic and aggressive stimuli are considered. (21 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> 
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SN  - 0022-3514
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.32.2.237
ID  - ref1
ER  -