Affective prediction errors in persistence and escalation of aggression.
Marius C. Vollberg,
Mina Cikara
Abstract:People generally empathize with others and find harm aversive. Yet aggression, e.g., between groups, abounds. How do people learn to overcome this aversion in order to aggress? Many models of learning emphasize outcome prediction errors-deviations from expected outcomes in the environment-but aggression may be fueled also by affective prediction errors (affective PEs)-deviations from how we expect to feel. Across five pre-registered online experiments that hold outcome prediction errors constant (N=4607), part… Show more
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