TY - JOUR PY - 2007// TI - Implicit and explicit personality: a test of a channeling hypothesis for aggressive behavior JO - Journal of applied psychology A1 - Frost, Brian C. A1 - Ko, Chih-Hung A1 - James, L. R. SP - 1299 EP - 1319 VL - 92 IS - 5 N2 - D. G. Winter, O. P. John, A. J. Stewart, E. C. Klohnen, and L. E. Duncan (1998) proposed that self-beliefs about personality influence the channels through which people express their implicit motives. On the basis of this hypothesis, the authors predicted that self-beliefs about aggressiveness would influence the channel(s) through which people express their aggressive motive and the justification mechanisms they use to defend expression of this motive. For example, the authors predicted that people who were implicitly prepared to rationalize a desire to harm others would engage in (a) overt aggression if they viewed themselves as aggressive or (b) passive aggression if they viewed themselves as nonaggressive. The implicit aspects of aggressiveness were measured via conditional reasoning (L. R. James et al., 2005). Results based on intramural basketball players supported the channeling hypothesis.

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LA - en SN - 0021-9010 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.92.5.1299 ID - ref1 ER -