Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context

• Main Authors: Dodge, Kenneth A, Malone, Patrick S, Lansford, Jennifer E, Sorbring, Emma, Skinner, Ann T, Tapanya, Sombat, Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe, Zelli, Arnaldo, Alampay, Liane Peña, Al-Hassan, Suha M, Bacchini, Dario, Bombi, Anna Silvia, Bornstein, Marc H, Chang, Lei, Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Di Giunta, Laura, Oburu, Paul, Pastorelli, Concetta
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• Subjects: aggressive behavior; cultural differences; hostile attribution; interpersonal conflict; social cognition; Cognition and Perception; Cognitive Psychology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/155; https://www.pnas.org/content/112/30/9310
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We tested a model that children’s tendency to attribute hostile intent to others in response to provocation is a key psychological process that statistically accounts for individual differences in reactive aggressive behavior and that this mechanism contributes to global group differences in childre...