title: Predicting Aggressive Tendencies by Visual Attention Bias Associated with Hostile Emotions.
abstract: The goal of the current study is to clarify the relationship between social information processing (e.g., visual attention to cues of hostility, hostility attribution bias, and facial expression emotion labeling) and aggressive tendencies. Thirty adults were recruited in the eye-tracking study that measured various components in social information processing. Baseline aggressive tendencies were measured using the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (AQ). Visual attention towards hostile objects was measured as the proportion of eye gaze fixation duration on cues of hostility. Hostility attribution bias was measured with the rating results for emotions of characters in the images. The results show that the eye gaze duration on hostile characters was significantly inversely correlated with the AQ score and less eye contact with an angry face. The eye gaze duration on hostile object was not significantly associated with hostility attribution bias, although hostility attribution bias was significantly positively associated with the AQ score. Our findings suggest that eye gaze fixation time towards non-hostile cues may predict aggressive tendencies.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.|Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.
authors.forename: Ping-I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Cheng-Da
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chi-Hung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Juan
authors.affiliation: Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.
authors.forename: Md Monir
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hossain
authors.affiliation: Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.
authors.forename: Craig A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Erickson
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yang-Han
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Mu-Chun
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult