Experimental study of aggression and catharsis in Japanese.
28 Japanese subjects were tested to investigate how aggressive motive and TAT fantasy writing would influence provoked subjects. To examine this psychologically and physiologically subjects' changes in affect and respiration rate were measured. The results showed significant provocation and cathartic effects.
D000035:Abreaction; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D001143:Arousal; D002399:Catharsis; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests