Aggression and heat: mediating effects of prior provocation and exposure to an aggressive model.

摘要: 64 male undergraduates participated in an experiment designed to examine the effects of level prior anger arousal, exposure aggressive model, and ambient temperature on physical aggression. On basis A. Bandura's (1973) social learning theory aggression, it was predicted that uncomfortably hot environmental conditions would be most effective facilitating later aggression when Ss had both witnessed actions model been exposed strong provocation from victim, but least this regard they neither nor instigation. In contrast these predictions, results indicate high temperatures facilitated by nonangered actually inhibited such behavior those who previously provoked. KW: Temperature Violence (18 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)