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This version was published on September 1, 2007
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 9, 1201-1213 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167207301031
© 2007 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Keeping One's Cool: Trait Anger, Hostile Thoughts, and the Recruitment of Limited Capacity Control

Benjamin M. Wilkowski

North Dakota State University, Benjamin.Wilkowski{at}ndsu.edu

Michael D. Robinson

North Dakota State University

A regulatory perspective on trait anger suggests that low-trait-anger individuals may recruit limited-capacity cognitive control resources following the activation of hostile thoughts. Because no prior studies directly examine such processes, the present studies seek to do so. Study 1 reveals that a simple word-evaluation paradigm can be used to examine individual differences in hostile reactivity, in that high-trait-anger individuals display more pronounced tendencies to evaluate words negatively following a hostile prime. Studies 2-4 examine a cognitive control account of such findings. Study 2 finds that time-limiting evaluations eliminate trait-linked differences in evaluative priming. Studies 3 and 4 find that low-trait-anger individuals display deficits on a secondary task immediately following the activation of a hostile thought. All studies, then, converge on the link between low trait anger and the spontaneous recruitment of limited-capacity cognitive control resources following hostile primes.

Key Words: trait anger • affect regulation • cognitive control • priming • aggression


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The Cognitive Basis of Trait Anger and Reactive Aggression: An Integrative Analysis
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