Citation

Eckhardt CI, Crane CA. J. Interpers. Violence 2015; 30(8): 1348-1368.

Affiliation

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA ccrane@ria.buffalo.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260514540330

PMID

25023727

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.

Language: en