Aggression_Sterotypes

Aggression Sterotypes It was found that the gender of the aggressor is not the only variable that influences the perceived levels, causes and acceptability of aggression. Gender of the target of aggression was found to also be an important variable. People tend to perceive greater aggression in acts against women than against men. For example, in one study, participants viewed shoving a neighbor as more aggressive when the neighbor was a woman ( Cretser 1996). In another study, the same physical punishment given by a parent was rated as more severe and abusive when directed toward a daughter than toward a son ( Meyer 1999). The gender of the recipient of aggression was found to influence the casual attribution for an aggressive act. In another study, participants read a vignette the described an incident of domestic violence (Conway 2000). The vignettes read by the different groups in the experiment varied only in whether the husband aggressed against the wife or the wife against the husband. When the target was the husband, the participants rated the target as more blame for the incident than when the target was the wife. Domestic violence, like sexual violence, is an area in which men aggression, men, act, women, aggressive, against, less, gender, woman, sterotypes, people, viewed, toward, target, one, example, attribution, another, aggressor, acceptable, wife, waving, violence, view, study, same, participants, influence, husband, generally, found, directed, widespread, whether, whereas, variable