Research support for hostile attribution bias

Cards (2)

  • Schonenberg and Justye
    showed ambiguous faces to 55 antisocial violent offenders in prison compared to responses from normal people.
    The faces shown angry,happy or fearful emotions,varying intensities.
    The offender were more likely to interpret anger as an expression of aggression.
  • Misinterpretation of nonverbal cues may at least partly explain aggressive-impulsive behaviour in susceptible individuals