Citation

Kirsh SJ, Mounts JR, Olczak PV. J. Interpers. Violence 2006; 21(5): 571-584.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, State University of New York-Geneseo, NY 14454, USA. kirsh@geneseo.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260506286840

PMID

16574633

Abstract

This study assessed the speed of recognition of facial emotional expressions (happy and angry) as a function of violent media consumption. Color photos of calm facial expressions morphed to either an angry or a happy facial expression. Participants were asked to make a speeded identification of the emotion (happiness or anger) during the morph. Results indicated that, independent of trait aggressiveness, participants high in violent media consumption responded slower to depictions of happiness and faster to depictions of anger than participants low in violent media consumption. Implications of these findings are discussed with respect to current models of aggressive behavior.

Language: en