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A N Rivera

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Competitive behavior and perceived aggression.

In groups of 39 males and 39 female undergraduates played a reaction-time game in which descriptions of a player's shock settings were constant or consistently below or above another player's; wins were varied. Ratings of aggression, offensiveness, positivity on semantic scales showed naive subjects considered the offensive or defensive nature of obseved behavior in making ratings.

Aggression