A conceptual review of lab-based aggression paradigms
- Aggression is often defined as a behavior that is done with the intent to harm an individual who is believed to want avoid being harmed (e.g., Baron & Richardson, 1994). Accordingly, social scientists have developed several tasks to study aggression in laboratory settings; tasks that we refer to as “lab based aggression paradigms.” However, because of the legal, ethical, and practical issues inherent in provoking aggression within the confines of a laboratory setting, it is feasible to study only very mildly harmful aggression. The current conceptual review examines the criteria that are necessary to study aggression in a laboratory setting, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of several new and/or commonly-used lab-based aggression paradigms, and offers recommendations for the future of lab based aggression research. Collectively, we hope the current discussion helps researchers to describe the contributions and limitations of lab-based aggression research and, ultimately, helps to improve the informativeness of lab-based aggression research.
| Author: | Randy McCarthyGND, Malte ElsonORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-60001 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.104 |
| Parent Title (English): | Collabra: Psychology |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/07/19 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2018/01/26 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | Open Access Fonds aggression; aggressive behaviors; harsh behaviors; methodology; validity |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 4-1 |
| Last Page: | 4-12 |
| Note: | Article Processing Charge funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Philosophie und Psychologie / Psychologie |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Philosophie und Erziehungswissenschaft |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
