It's not just what you say, it's how you say it too. Adolescents' hostile attribution of intent and emotional responses to social comments.

ABSTRACT: A highly prevalent and relevant situation in which adolescents have to interpret the intentions of others is when they interact with peers. We therefore successfully introduced a new paradigm to measure hostile attribution bias (HAB) and emotional responses to such social interactions and examined how it related to youth's aggressiveness. We presented 881 adolescents (M_age  = 14.35 years; SD = 1.23; 48.1% male) with audio fragments of age-mates expressing social comments that varied in content (e.g., what the person says) and tone of voice (e.g., how the person says it). Participants' peers also reported on their aggressiveness. In general, added negativity of content and tone was driving the youth's intent attribution and emotional responses to the comments. In line with the So

SUBMITTER: van den Berg YHM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7496477 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature