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Cited by 844Bullying, Victimization, and AggressionChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentChild and Animal Learning Development

Social Cognitive Biases and Deficits in Aggressive Boys

Dodge, Kenneth A., Frame, Cynthia L.·1982·Child Development
DOI 10.2307/1129373
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3 studies are reported which assess the nature and limits of a known bias on the part of aggressive boys to overattribute hostile intentions to peers. The first study determined that this bias is restricted to attributions of a peer's behavior toward an aggressive boy, and not to attributions of a peer's behavior toward a second peer. Biased attributions were implicated as a direct precedent to aggressive responses. The second study assessed the role of selective attention to and recall of hostile social cues in the formation of a biased attribution. It was found that selective recall of hostile cues did lead to a biased attribution, but that selective recall did not fully account for the attributional differences between aggressive and nonaggressive boys. Also, specific deficits in recall by aggressive boys were identified. The third study involved naturalistic observation of the peer-directed aggressive behaviors of boys in a controlled setting. It was found that the biased attributions of aggressive boys may have some basis in their experience, in that they were frequently the targets of peers' aggressive behavior. Their own aggressive behavior toward peers, however, occurred at a much higher rate than the rate at which they were the targets of aggression. These findings led to the formation of a social-information-processing model of aggressive behavior.

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Authors
Dodge, K. A., & Frame, C. L.
Affiliations
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
ORCID
Dodge, Kenneth A.
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1982-06
Volume
53
Issue
3
Pages
620
ISSN
0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/1129373
OpenAlex
W1989869926
Cited by
844
References
1
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FWCI
18.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Child Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
Keywords
aggression, hostile attribution bias, boys, peer aggression, selective attention, memory retrieval, social information processing model
MeSH terms
Aggression, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Cognition, Cues, Hostility, Humans, Male, Models, Psychological, Peer Group, Mental Recall, Social Perception

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