TY - JOUR AB - Five experiments with 353 young adults performing a game on an aggression machine are reported, three of them testing hypotheses concerning the effects of a model's aggressiveness and social status on instrumental aggressive behavior, and two investigating aspects of reliability and validity. Model's aggressiveness increased the Ss' aggressive behavior in all experiments. The use of presumptive monetary losses as a means by which SS punish their opponents in aggression machine experiments is as effective as presumed electric shocks, and therefore seems preferable in further experimental studies of aggression. DA - 1978 DO - 10.1007/BF00308414 LA - eng IS - 2 M2 - 189 PY - 1978 SN - 0340-0727 SP - 189-193 T2 - Psychological Research TI - Modeling instrumental aggression in adults in a laboratory setting UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-17824851 Y2 - 2024-12-26T11:09:04 ER -