Is hostile attributional bias associated with negative urgency and impulsive behaviors? A social-cognitive conceptualization of impulsivity

An ERP study on hostile attribution bias in aggressive and nonaggressive individuals

“…Social Information Processing-Attribution and Emotional Response Questionnaire (SIP-AEQ; Coccaro et al, 2009). The French adapted version of the SIP-AEQ (Gagnon, McDuff, Daelman, & Fournier, 2015) contains eight vignettes featuring a social situation in which a character acts as a provocateur and whose intentions are ambiguous. Vignettes represented either physical or relational aggression directed toward a person with whom participants were asked to identity.…”

Mediating Effect of Attributional Biases in the Impulsivity–Aggression Relationship Among Adolescents: Therapeutic Implications

“…After making hostile attributions, individuals tend to ignore relevant cues available in a provocative situation, avoid evaluating alternative responses, and fail to consider the consequences of their behaviours (Chen et al, 2012). Taking a different perspective, Gagnon et al (2015) asserted that HAB mediates the relationship between negative urgency and various impulsive behaviours following a social provocation. Their findings suggested that high urgency individuals are more prone to attribute hostile intentions to others in an ambiguous negative context, and similarly to react impulsively to a perceived social provocation.…”

“…At present, the contribution of social-cognitive processing biases and impulsivity in explaining aggressive behaviour have rarely been studied in the Indian context. However, there are studies available in Western countries in which some subdimensions of aggression and impulsivity were explored in relation to HAB (e.g., Gagnon et al, 2015; Gagnon & Rochat, 2017). As per our best knowledge, no such studies on adolescents have examined whether HAB mediates the relation between impulsivity and aggression in the Indian context.…”

“…Hence, while deciding how to react in an aversive situation, impulsive individuals tend to take the decision instantly without any deliberation (Crick & Dodge, 1994). Gagnon et al (2015) studied the significance of social information processing models for understanding impulsivity with more emphasis on HAB. The findings suggested that individuals with a high sense of urgency are more vulnerable to attribute hostile intentions to others in an ambiguous negative situation.…”

Balanced, positive, and negative attributions: A preliminary investigation of a novel attribution coding system and associated affect and social behavior in children with disruptive behavior

“…This finding suggests that the type of attribution made is associated with children's affect. Finally, while various studies have supported the integration of affect into an SIP framework when evaluating children's attributions to peer intent in ambiguous‐negative situations (e.g., Coccaro, Noblett, & McCloskey, 2009; Gagnon, McDuff, Daelman, & Fournier, 2015; Orobio de Castro et al, 2005), no studies have evaluated children's affective responses in relation to balanced attribution, or in relation to processing of positive social information in ambiguous‐positive situations. The present study examined the associations between attribution styles in ambiguous‐positive and ambiguous‐negative social situations and corresponding affect.…”