@article{ref1,
title="Does trait hostility moderate the asymmetry in victim-perpetrator perceptions of aggressive behaviors?",
journal="Psychological reports",
year="2021",
author="Rivers, Alison K. and McCarthy, Randy J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Victims often perceive aggressive behaviors as being more harmful than do perpetrators-a so-called victim-perpetrator asymmetry. We examined whether this  victim-perpetrator asymmetry was especially strong for individuals who were high in  trait hostility. In two studies-one where participants recalled actual aggressive  experiences and one where participants took the perspective of a person in a  vignette-we found that victims who were high in trait hostility, relative to those  who were low, viewed aggressive behaviors as being most harmful. We found somewhat  inconsistent effects for whether perpetrators viewed the aggressive behaviors as  more justified than victims did and whether trait hostility moderated this judgment. Collectively, the current findings show that victims who are high in trait hostility  are especially likely to view an aggressive behavior as harmful, which potentially  makes conflict resolution difficult for these individuals and increases the  likelihood they would retaliate.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2941",
doi="10.1177/0033294120984123",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033294120984123"
}