Physical Aggression and Facial Expression Identification
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Taylor, Alisdair James Gordon
Jose, Maria
Abstract / Description
Social information processing theories suggest that aggressive individuals may exhibit hostile perceptual biases when interpreting other’s behaviour. This hypothesis was tested in the present study which investigated the effects of physical aggression on facial expression identification in a sample of healthy participants. Participants were asked to judge the expressions of faces presented to them and to complete a self-report measure of aggression. Relative to low physically aggressive participants, high physically aggressive participants were more likely to mistake non-angry facial expressions as being angry facial expressions (misattribution errors), supporting the idea of a hostile predisposition. These differences were not explained by gender, or response times. There were no differences in identifying angry expressions in general between aggression groups (misperceived errors). These findings add support to the idea that aggressive individuals exhibit hostile perceptual biases when interpreting facial expressions.
Keyword(s)
facial expressions aggression physical face processing emotionPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2014-11-28
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
10
Issue
4
Page numbers
650–659
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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Review status
peerReviewed
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Taylor, A. J. G., & Jose, M. (2014). Physical Aggression and Facial Expression Identification. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 10(4), 650–659. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i4.816
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Taylor, Alisdair James Gordon
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Jose, Maria
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Date of first publication2014-11-28
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Abstract / DescriptionSocial information processing theories suggest that aggressive individuals may exhibit hostile perceptual biases when interpreting other’s behaviour. This hypothesis was tested in the present study which investigated the effects of physical aggression on facial expression identification in a sample of healthy participants. Participants were asked to judge the expressions of faces presented to them and to complete a self-report measure of aggression. Relative to low physically aggressive participants, high physically aggressive participants were more likely to mistake non-angry facial expressions as being angry facial expressions (misattribution errors), supporting the idea of a hostile predisposition. These differences were not explained by gender, or response times. There were no differences in identifying angry expressions in general between aggression groups (misperceived errors). These findings add support to the idea that aggressive individuals exhibit hostile perceptual biases when interpreting facial expressions.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationTaylor, A. J. G., & Jose, M. (2014). Physical Aggression and Facial Expression Identification. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 10(4), 650–659. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i4.816
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/925
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1117
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i4.816
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Keyword(s)facial expressionsen_US
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Keyword(s)aggressionen_US
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Keyword(s)physicalen_US
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Keyword(s)face processingen_US
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Keyword(s)emotionen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitlePhysical Aggression and Facial Expression Identificationen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue4
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers650–659
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Volume10
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