Implicit and explicit personality: A test of a channeling hypothesis for aggressive Behavior

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Frost, Brian C.; Ko, Chia-Huei Emily; James, Lawrence R.
• 署名单位: University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.5.1299
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1299-1319
• 关键词: conditional reasoning; channeling models; aggression; implicit personality

摘要

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.