Aggressive Impulse Management

攻击性冲动管理

• 批准号: 1348553
• 负责人: Brad Bushman
• 金额: $ 31.5万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1348553&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Aggressive; Impulse; Management

Aggression takes a tremendous toll on society, and it is vital to learn how people may withhold their aggressive impulses. Unfortunately, people seem to have fewer and less effective techniques for controlling aggression than for controlling other emotional impulses. A key problem is that popular strategies for reducing aggression tend to be least effective in the heat of the moment, when tempers can flare. The proposed research introduces a new motivational approach that circumvents this problem. This work will contribute towards the development of more efficient methods for reducing aggression. This is critically important, as aggression reduction is instrumental in preventing countless acts of violence, ranging from domestic violence to aggravated assault and homicide. The proposed research will target aggressive impulses directly. Prior research has shown that aggressive impulses are characterized by a strong drive towards approach actions, for instance, to blurt out an insulting remark or to hit someone. By blocking this motivation towards approach actions, it may be possible to lower people's impulse to aggress. The proposed research will systematically investigate these motivational influences, and will test whether experimentally manipulating avoidance (versus approach) motivation can reduce the impact of factors that are known to increase aggression, including alcohol, the male sex hormone testosterone, and exposure to media violence. In addition, the proposed research will develop a training program that is geared towards reducing the motivation to aggress. It is expected that lowering approach motivation will particularly reduce aggression among angry individuals who are driven by their impulses and, thus, otherwise most likely to aggress.

侵略对社会造成了巨大的损失，学习人们如何保留自己的侵略性冲动至关重要。不幸的是，与控制其他情绪冲动相比，人们似乎拥有控制侵略的技术较少，效率较低。一个关键问题是，在脾气暴躁的时候，在当今的热量中，降低侵略性的流行策略往往最不可能。拟议的研究引入了一种新的动机方法，以绕过这个问题。这项工作将有助于开发更有效的方法来减少侵略性。 这至关重要，因为降低侵略性在防止无数的暴力行为，从家庭暴力到严重的袭击和凶杀罪起作用。拟议的研究将直接针对积极的冲动。先前的研究表明，积极的冲动的特征是朝着进近行动的强烈动力，例如，脱口而出侮辱性的言论或击中某人。通过阻止这种动力，有可能降低人们的冲动来侵略。拟议的研究将系统地研究这些动机的影响，并将测试是否可以通过实验操纵避免（与方法）动机可以减少已知会增加侵略性的因素的影响，包括酒精，男性性激素睾丸激素以及暴露于媒体暴力。此外，拟议的研究将制定一项培训计划，旨在减少进攻的动力。可以预期，降低进近动机将特别减少受冲动驱动的愤怒的人的侵略，因此最有可能侵略。