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Experimental investigations of hostility catharsis.

Leonard Berkowitz
- 01 Aug 1970 - 
- Vol. 35, Iss: 1, pp 1-7
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This article is published in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 87 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Catharsis & Hostility.

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An Escape-Avoidance View of Catharsis:

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptualization pertaining to the "arousal" reducing concomitants of aggression is presented, along with supporting evidence, suggesting that hostility catharsis, when observed, may only be a special case of a more general set of behavioral-emotional learning processes involving the escape-avoidance paradigm.
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Sexuality and the commission of physical violence to partners and non-partners by men and women.

TL;DR: The findings of 2 studies of physical violence and sexuality among college students support the importance of differentiating between violence toward partners and toward non-partners among both men and women and suggest a role of depression in partner violence and antisocial features in violence towardNon-partner.
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Anger, Violence, and Academic Performance A Study of Troubled Minority Youth

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that anger mismanagement was unrelated to violent behavior, but was negatively related to control over time and concentration, whereas physical violence was associated with a lack of goal direction.
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Is Positive Always Positive? The Effects of Precrisis Media Coverage on Rumor Refutation Effectiveness in Social Media

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the tenor of media coverage moderates the relationship between the quality of refutation arguments and refutation effectiveness, and suggests that when the media coverage is positive, high-quality refutations will not result in significant lower levels of belief in, and intentions to share, the rumor than low-quality arguments.
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Electronic word-of-mouth in China: A motivational analysis

TL;DR: Based on the research of Henning-Thurau and Mee-Shew Cheung, the authors studied the motives of electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) in China as mentioned in this paper.
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Weapons as Aggression-Eliciting Stimuli

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to test the hypothesis that stimuli commonly associated with aggression can elicit aggressive responses from people ready to act aggressively, and the greatest number of shocks were given by the strongly aroused Ss (who had received 7 shocks) when they were in the presence of the weapons.
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Vicarious Processes: A Case of No-Trial Learning1

TL;DR: This chapter is mainly concerned with the theoretical analysis of the process of no-trial learning, and behavioral effects of exposure to modeling stimuli.