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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to examine the priming effects of violent movies and aggressive words on implicit aggression by using modified STROOP task. 190 adolescents participated in this study, with 95 assigned to non-violent movie group and 95 assigned to violent movie group. The results showed that no significant difference was found in the main affect of Movie Type, but it revealed significant Movie Type × Aggressive Trait interaction, and that aggression was significantly influenced by violent movie only for high-aggressive trait (HT) adolescents, but not for mid-aggressive trait (MT) and low-aggressive trait (LT) adolescents. The possible underlying mechanism was that HT adolescents may possess a relatively stronger aggressive network of cognitive association which was easily activated by violence than MT and LT adolescents. This indicated that violent movie could effectively elicit implicit aggression for adolescents who were highly aggressive, but not for nonaggressive adolescents.
Highlights
Aggression was a kind of cognition, affect and behavior directed toward another individual that was carried out with the intent to cause harm (Anderson & Bushman, 2002)
The average aggressively priming score (APS) of violent movie group (11 ms) was higher than that of non-violent movie (−3 ms) by watching violent movies (See Table 3), Table 4 showed no significant difference in main effect of movie type on aggression (F = .79, p > .05)
Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was used to test whether significant difference was found in APS among independent variables (See Table 4)
Summary
Aggression was a kind of cognition, affect and behavior directed toward another individual that was carried out with the intent to cause harm (Anderson & Bushman, 2002). Accidental hurt was not an aggressive behavior because it was not intentional. Harm which was only a by-product of pro-social behavior could not be defined as aggression, for the target is not motivated to avoid the action (e.g. pain experienced during an operation in hospital). With China entering into the era of information technology (IT), numerous kids had more and more opportunities to watch violent movies online, and they were prone to imitate aggressive behavior from the developmental perspective. Some adolescents, who lacked basic values and moral judgments, were influenced by violent movies (e.g. high-aggressive trait, aggressive behavior)
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