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The role of perspective taking in anger arousal

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posted on 2007-08-01, 00:00 authored by P Mohr, K Howells, A Gerace, Andrew Day, M Wharton
Although there are strong grounds to expect that perspective taking deficits are associated with anger arousal following an interpersonal provocation, there has been little research directly testing this hypothesis. In this study, 636 volunteers were asked to rate their likely reactions to two brief video representations of potentially anger arousing social transgressions. Results confirm the relationship between dispositional perspective taking and the likelihood of anger arousal following an interpersonal provocation. Perspective taking was also predictive of trait anger (negatively) and of the means of control and expression of anger. Associations between personal distress and anger measures indicate the possible influence of the intensity, regulation, and direction of emotion on anger.

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Journal

Personality and individual differences

Volume

43

Issue

3

Pagination

507 - 517

Publisher

Pergamon

Location

Oxford, England

ISSN

0191-8869

eISSN

1873-3549

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2007, Elsevier

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