title: Cognitive and aggressive reactions of male dating violence perpetrators to anger arousal.
abstract: In the current study, 20 dating violent and 27 non-violent college males provided verbal articulations and self-report data regarding cognitive biases, change in affect, and aggressive reactions following anger induction through the articulated thoughts in simulated situations paradigm. Violent, relative to non-violent, males articulated more cognitive biases and verbally aggressive statements during provocation. These same relationships did not hold for a retrospective self-report measure. Greater cognitive biases and aggressive articulations reliably distinguished between violent and non-violent males in the current study. Results suggest that assessing cognitive and affective content "in the heat of the moment" may be a more sensitive indicator of dating violence than retrospective self-reports.
authors.affiliation: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Eckhardt
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA ccrane@ria.buffalo.edu.
authors.forename: Cory A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Crane
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D000786:Anger; D003071:Cognition; D003380:Courtship; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: aggression; anger arousal; cognitive bias; dating violence; intimate partner violence