Citation

Mouradian VE. J. Appl. Soc. Psychol. 2001; 31(2): 376-408.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1559-1816.2001.tb00202.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study addressed individual and gender differences in the availability and content of memory representations of contexts and goals for physical aggression use in intimate relationships among university students. The contribution of victimization by one's partner to such representations was examined as well. Interaction effects in both quantitative and qualitative results indicated that perpetrator men differed from nonviolent men in measures of accessibility, providing more responses faster, and from nonviolent subjects and perpetrator women in their most frequently supplied categories of explanation for intimate aggression. Findings also provided indirect support for women's defensive uses of aggression, and evidence for the influence of emotion on memory access and content, including suppression of response time among female victims and male nonviolent victims.