Personality pathways to aggression: Testing a trait‐state model using immersive technology

Abstract: Trait-state models aim to provide an encompassing view of offender decision-making processes by linking individual dispositions to proximal factors. In an experiment using an immersive virtual reality bar fight scenario, we propose and test a trait-state model that identifies the pathways through which robust personality correlates of aggressive behavior, that is, agreeableness, emotionality, and honesty-humility, result in intentions to aggress. Using structural equation modeling, we show how these personality traits relate to intentions to aggress via anger, fear, perceived risk, and anticipated guilt/shame. Additionally, we demonstrate superior validity of our virtual scenario over a written version of the same scenario by virtue of its ability to provide more contextual realism, to establish a stronger sense of presence, and to trigger more intense emotional states relevant to the decision situation. Implications for future decision-making research and theory are discussed

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Criminology. - 60, 3 (2022) , 406-428, ISSN: 1745-9125

Klassifikation
Psychologie

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Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Freiburg
(wer)
Universität
(wann)
2022

DOI
10.1111/1745-9125.12305
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2299644
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:41 MEZ

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