Citation

Russell GW, Arms RL. Aggressive Behav. 1995; 21(5): 381-386.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, International Society for Research on Aggression, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

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Abstract

The present investigation sought to establish the relationships between two measures of aggression and both subjects' self-reported attraction to fights and likelihood that they would join in a crowd disturbance. Subjects were adult males (N = 63) interviewed at an ice hockey game. Tests of the false consensus effect [Ross et al. (1977): Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 13:279-301] were also undertaken, Physical aggression and anger bore strong, positive correlations with subjects' liking to watch the fights and the likelihood of their escalating a crowd disturbance, Support for the false consensus effect was found insofar as those attracted to the fights and those who would escalate a disturbance estimated a disproportionately greater number of other spectators were similarly attracted to fights and would take similar action, The implications for unruly crowd behaviors were discussed.