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[Responsibility for damage and anger].

M Schmitt1, K Hoser, P Schwenkmezger

  • 1Fachbereich I-Psychologie, Universität Trier.

Zeitschrift Fur Experimentelle Und Angewandte Psychologie
|January 1, 1991
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Perpetrator responsibility influences anger expression. As responsibility increases, state anger and anger out rise, while anger control declines, aligning with social norms.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Context:

  • Anger is a complex emotion often linked to perceived injustice.
  • Previous research suggested anger expression is a stable trait.

Purpose:

  • To experimentally investigate the relationship between perpetrator responsibility and anger expression.
  • To test if situational factors, like responsibility, modulate anger responses.

Summary:

  • An experiment with 120 participants explored anger in everyday scenarios, varying perpetrator responsibility.
  • Participants rated their state anger, anger in, anger out, and anger control across different responsibility levels.
  • Results showed increased state anger and anger out, and decreased anger control with higher perpetrator responsibility, controlling for trait anger.

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Impact:

  • Demonstrates that anger expression is situation-dependent and influenced by social norms.
  • Challenges the view of anger expression as solely a trait-like characteristic.
  • Provides empirical support for the role of perceived responsibility in modulating emotional responses.