Feeling unrestricted by rules: Ostracism promotes aggressive responses

Poon, Kai Tak; Teng, Fei

doi:10.1002/ab.21714

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“…Finally, participants' aggression was assessed by using the well‐validated noise blast paradigm adapted from prior research (e.g., Giancola & Zeichner, 1995; Poon & Teng, 2017). Participants were informed that their partner in the previous first impression task would proceed to another study about the impact of sound stimulation on intellectual performance.…”

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Sexual objectification increases retaliatory aggression

Poon

Jiang

2020

Aggressive Behavior

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Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether sexual objectification increases retaliatory aggression serially through increased vulnerability and hostile intent attributions. Female participants were first exposed to the sexual objectification manipulation by receiving compliments from an online male partner (Experiment 1) or imagining a workplace objectification experience (Experiment 2). Afterward, their vulnerability and hostile intent attributions were assessed. Finally, they were given an opportunity to behave aggressively toward the source of objectification. The results of both experiments indicated that, compared with their counterparts in the control conditions, participants in the sexual objectification condition reported higher levels of vulnerability, hostile intent attributions, and aggression. Moreover, vulnerability and hostile intent attributions serially mediated the effect of sexual objectification on aggression. These findings highlight the critical influence of vulnerability and hostile intent attributions in understanding how sexual objectification increases aggression. K E Y W O R D S aggression, antisocial behavior, hostile intent attributions, sexual objectification, vulnerability

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Sexual objectification increases retaliatory aggression

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Jiang

2020

Aggressive Behavior

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“…As evidence that this phenomenon extends out into the broader world, experiences of rejection are thematic among the lives of the majority of school shooters (Leary et al, 2003). Investigations into the psychological processes that motivate the rejection-aggression link have revealed anger (Chow et al, 2008), hostile cognitive biases (DeWall et al, 2009), disinhibition (Rajchert and Winiewski, 2016), non-adherence to societal norms (Poon and Teng, 2017) and desires to re-establish feelings of control (Warburton et al, 2006;Wesselmann et al, 2010), as likely motivations. Although the psychological mechanisms of this effect are becoming well explicated, the neural mechanisms of the rejection-aggression link remain largely unexamined.…”

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Neural Mechanisms of the Rejection-Aggression Link

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Lynam²,

Milich³

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Social rejection is a painful event that often increases aggression. However, the neural mechanisms of this rejection-aggression link remain unclear. A potential clue may be that rejected people often recruit the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex’s (VLPFC) self-regulatory processes to manage the pain of rejection. Using functional MRI, we replicated previous links between rejection and activity in the brain’s mentalizing network, social pain network, and VLPFC. VLPFC recruitment during rejection was associated with greater activity in the brain’s reward network (i.e., the ventral striatum) when individuals were given an opportunity to retaliate. This retaliation-related striatal response was associated with greater levels of retaliatory aggression. Dispositionally aggressive individuals exhibited less functional connectivity between the ventral striatum and the right VLPFC during aggression. This connectivity exerted a suppressing effect on dispositionally aggressive individuals’ greater aggressive responses to rejection. These results help explain how the pain of rejection and reward of revenge motivate rejected people to behave aggressively.

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“…As evidence that this phenomenon extends out into the broader world, experiences of rejection are thematic among the lives of the majority of school shooters ( Leary et al , 2003 ). Investigations into the psychological processes that motivate the rejection–aggression link have revealed anger ( Chow et al , 2008 ), hostile cognitive biases ( DeWall et al , 2009 ), disinhibition ( Rajchert and Winiewski, 2016 ), non-adherence to societal norms ( Poon and Teng, 2017 ) and desires to re-establish feelings of control ( Warburton et al , 2006 ; Wesselmann et al , 2010 ), as likely motivations. Although the psychological mechanisms of this effect are becoming well explicated, the neural mechanisms of the rejection–aggression link remain largely unexamined.…”

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Neural mechanisms of the rejection–aggression link

Chester

Lynam

Milich

et al. 2018

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Social rejection is a painful event that often increases aggression. However, the neural mechanisms of this rejection–aggression link remain unclear. A potential clue may be that rejected people often recruit the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex’s (VLPFC) self-regulatory processes to manage the pain of rejection. Using functional MRI, we replicated previous links between rejection and activity in the brain’s mentalizing network, social pain network and VLPFC. VLPFC recruitment during rejection was associated with greater activity in the brain’s reward network (i.e. the ventral striatum) when individuals were given an opportunity to retaliate. This retaliation-related striatal response was associated with greater levels of retaliatory aggression. Dispositionally aggressive individuals exhibited less functional connectivity between the ventral striatum and the right VLPFC during aggression. This connectivity exerted a suppressing effect on dispositionally aggressive individuals’ greater aggressive responses to rejection. These results help explain how the pain of rejection and reward of revenge motivate rejected people to behave aggressively.

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Feeling unrestricted by rules: Ostracism promotes aggressive responses

Cited by 39 publications

References 60 publications

Sexual objectification increases retaliatory aggression

Sexual objectification increases retaliatory aggression

Neural Mechanisms of the Rejection-Aggression Link

Neural mechanisms of the rejection–aggression link

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