The flux, pulse, and spin of aggression-related affect.

ABSTRACT: Aggression is an affect-laden behavior. The within-person variability of affective states that immediately precede, accompany, and follow aggression-and their links to between-person variability in aggressive behavior and traits-remain incompletely understood. To address this gap in our understanding, we examined 8 studies in which 2,173 participants reported the negative and positive affect they experienced before, during, and after a laboratory or online aggression task. We quantified the within-person variability within (flux) and across (pulse) negative and positive affect intensity, as well as the variability in oscillations between negative and positive affect (spin). Internal meta-analyses revealed an association between aggressive behavior and traits and flux i

SUBMITTER: Chester DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501194 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature