RT Article
T1 Seeing more than others: identification of subtle aggressive information as a function of trait aggressiveness
JF Social psychology
VO 47
IS 3
SP 135
OP 149
A1 Teige-Mocigemba, Sarah 1979-
A1 Hölzenbein, Fabian 1982-
A1 Klauer, Karl Christoph 1961-
A2 Hölzenbein, Fabian 1982-
A2 Klauer, Karl Christoph 1961-
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1582255938
AB  Researchers have long argued that aggressive individuals automatically tend to perceive hostile intent in others, even when it is in fact absent (hostile attribution bias). Wilkowski and Robinson (2012) recently showed, however, that aggressive individuals were particularly accurate in the identification of subtle cues of facial anger, indicating greater perceptual sensitivity to anger information rather than a biased perception or interpretation. We tested the generality of this finding in four paradigms with different stimuli. As predicted by Wilkowski and Robinson, the more aggressive participants were, the more accurately they identified subtle aggressive information, whereas accuracy in the identification of nonaggressive emotional information was not a function of self-reported aggressiveness. The discussion focuses on the generality and limitations of the findings.
K1 Hostile attribution bias
K1 Perceptual sensitivity
K1 Aggressive information
K1 Emotion identification
DO 10.1027/1864-9335/a000266