Erratum to “Is Aggressive Trait Responsible for Violence? Priming Effects of Aggressive Words and Violent Movies” [Psychology 4 (2013) 96-100]

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The original online version of this article (Zhang, Q., Zhang, D. J., & Wang, L. X. (2013) Is Aggressive Trait Responsible for Violence? Priming Effects of Aggressive Words and Violent Movies. Psychology, 4, 96-100. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/psych.2013.42013) was published as some results data reported mistakenly. The author wishes to correct the errors to:

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Zhang, Q. and Wang, L. (2019) Erratum to “Is Aggressive Trait Responsible for Violence? Priming Effects of Aggressive Words and Violent Movies” [Psychology 4 (2013) 96-100]. Psychology, 10, 1371-1372. doi: 10.4236/psych.2019.1010088.

The original online version of this article (Zhang, Q., Zhang, D. J., & Wang, L. X. (2013) Is Aggressive Trait Responsible for Violence? Priming Effects of Aggressive Words and Violent Movies. Psychology, 4, 96-100. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/psych.2013.42013) was published as some results data reported mistakenly. The author wishes to correct the errors to:

Method

The total participants were 190 adolescents (95 boys, 95 girls) from a small high school in the southwestern area of China. Adolescents ranged in age from 15 to 19 years (M = 16.22, SD = 1.60).

Experimental Design

Multi-factorial design was used, with Movie Type and Aggressive Trait as independent variables and Aggression as dependent variable. 2 (Movie Type: violent vs. non-violent) × 3 (Aggressive Trait: HT, MT, LT) repeated two measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted with Movie Type and Aggressive Trait as between-group factor, and Goal Word as within-group factor. According to score distribution, participants who got score at the top of 27% on Buss Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) were defined as HT, and the last 27% were seen as LT, and the rest were considered as MT.

Results

The Main Effect of Movie Type, Movie Type × Aggressive Trait Interaction

In the study, we would like to verify the aggressively priming effect of violent movie and aggressive word on implicit aggression, and postulated each participant had a mean aggressively priming score (APS), which meant the calculated score for the mean RT value of aggressive words minus nonaggressive words and divide by 2 for the violent movie group (THE BIG FAT KILL), and found whether significant difference of APS in group type (See Table 1).

Table 1. MANCOVA in APS between movie type and aggressive trait.

Note: *p < 0.05.

Multivariateanalysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was used to test whether significant difference was found in APS among independent variables (See Table 1). Table 1 showed no significant difference in main effect of movie type on aggression (F (1,184) = 1.79, p > 0.05).

As can be seen in Table 1, there was a significant Movie Type × Aggressive Trait interaction (F (2, 184) = 4.09, p < 0.05). Further simple effect analysis showed that aggression of HT adolescents was significantly elicited by violent movie clips (F (2, 184) = 5.46, p < 0.01). But no significant aggression difference was elicited by nonviolent movies (F (2, 184) = 2.79, p > 0.05; See Table 2).

Table 2. Post Hoc in APS among aggressive traits by watching movie clips.

Note: **p < 0.01.

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