individual differences - cognitive factors evaluation
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- Created on: 27-02-21 12:28
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- cognitive factors evaluation
- Research support - hostile attribution bias
- Schonenberg and Justye 2014 - showed emotionally ambiguous faces to 55 antisocial violent offenders, compared their responses to matched control participants (‘normal’)
- Faces showed angry, happy, fearful emotions, in varying levels of intensity
- Offenders more likely to interpret that pictures with some expression of anger were expressions of aggression
- Researchers concluded that misinterpretation of non-verbal cues may partly explain aggressive-impulsive behaviour in susceptible individuals
- Ignoring role of biological and social factors
- Social factors such as poverty and emotional factors such as loss may play a more significant role in the explanation of an individual’s criminal behaviour
- Caspi found that 12% of men who had low MAOA were responsible for 44% of violent convictions and experienced maltreatment.
- Biological and social factors may be more important factors in explaining violent behaviour than distorted thinking.
- This means that the cognitive explanation may not be a complete explanation of criminal behaviour.
- Research support - hostile attribution bias
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