The competitive reaction time task: The development and scientific utility of a flexible laboratory aggression paradigm

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne A. Warburton ◽  
Brad J. Bushman
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Reaction Time Task ◽  
Competitive Reaction ◽  
Time Task

scholarly journals Post-Depletion Aggression Restrained: Replicabily of Brief Mindfulness Induction In Indonesian Sample

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleoputri Yusainy ◽  
Wahyu Wicaksono
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Reaction Time Task ◽  
Ego Depletion ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Mindfulness Practice ◽  
Control Performance ◽  
Competitive Reaction ◽  
Time Task ◽  
Mindfulness Induction ◽  
British Sample

Mindfulness practice is being promoted in Western countries as a means to improve one’s ability to restrain aggression under “depleted” condition. The applicability of this framework in non-Western settings is yet to be determined. This study (N = 119 Indonesian undergraduates) directly replicated Yusainy and Lawrence (2015) experiment with native British sample, to examine the moderation of mindfulness induction on post-depletion aggression (i.e., blast intensity in an adapted competitive reaction-time task). Similar results were obtained, in that mindfulness induction moderated the ego-depletion and (i) blast intensity link under low/moderate provocation, and (ii) self-control performance link after the aggression task. Notably, the benefit of mindfulness was also indicated in our additional aggression measure of the late deliverance of maximum blast in depleted females. While Western operationalisation of mindfulness operates quite similarly across cultures, the inclusion of a subtle measure of aggression appears to be crucial for Indonesian females.

scholarly journals Press CRTT to measure aggressive behavior: The unstandardized use of the competitive reaction time task in aggression research.

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Elson ◽  
M. Rohangis Mohseni ◽  
Johannes Breuer ◽  
Michael Scharkow ◽  
Thorsten Quandt
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Reaction Time Task ◽  
Competitive Reaction ◽  
Time Task

scholarly journals Toward a More Valid Assessment of Behavioral Aggression: An Open Source Platform and an Empirically Derived Scoring Method for Using the Competitive Reaction Time Task (CRTT)

Assessment ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 107319112095975
Author(s):  
Jill Lobbestael ◽  
Franziska Emmerling ◽  
Suzanne Brugman ◽  
Nick Broers ◽  
Alexander T. Sack ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Reaction Time Task ◽  
Competitive Reaction ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Time Task ◽  
Measure Analysis ◽  
Evidenced Based ◽  
Behavioral Aggression ◽  
Aversive Feedback

While the Competitive Reaction Time Task (CRTT) is the most used behavioral aggression paradigm, it is characterized by methodological heterogeneity and quantification strategies for its’ outcome are unstandardized. Therefore, the standards of measuring aggression should be improved. This article contributes on such an improvement by providing: (a) a freely available CRTT online administration program, and (b) a factor-analytically derived scoring method. Based on a combined sample ( n = 423), a two-factor model was fit to the 30-trial CRTT version. The first factor included all trial scores subsequent to the first time the participant received aversive feedback (i.e., provoked factor) and the second factor included all trial scores prior to this first aversive feedback (i.e., unprovoked factor). Construct validity was evidenced based on the factors` differential relationship with self-reported aggression and narcissism. Our factor analytic findings empirically support the superiority of one of the existing CRTT scoring methods, that is, separately averaging all preprovocation versus all postprovocation trials. We discuss practical recommendations for CRTT users and outline future empirical avenues. This article aims at stimulating joint efforts to move toward standardization of CRTT implementation and outcome measure analysis.

Male Aggression toward Females as a Function of Traditional vs Nontraditional Cues and Visibility of the Target

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1135-1142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane R. Follingstad ◽  
Judy C. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Reaction Time Task ◽  
Competitive Reaction ◽  
Male Aggression ◽  
Time Task ◽  
High Shock ◽  
Visible Target ◽  
Female Target ◽  
Male Subjects

An aggression paradigm, disguised as a competitive reaction time task, was designed to investigate aggression by males toward a female who deviated from traditionally expected properties of a female target. 33 male subjects, exposed to a female varying in traditional vs non-traditional appearance and attitudes, did not set differential shock levels for their target. The surprisingly high shock levels which subjects set for the female, however, resulted in an additional experimental condition to compare the visibility of the opponent in the design with the non-visibility of female opponents in previous studies demonstrating low aggression against females. Seven subjects with a non-visible target shocked their opponent significantly less than in all other conditions where males had contact with the female opponent. This finding suggests that studies using non-visible female targets cannot legitimately be generalized to real-life situations and that males may not be inhibited from aggressing against females as previously thought.

Modeling Within-Person Variance in Reaction Time Data of Older Adults

GeroPsych ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Rast ◽  
Daniel Zimprich
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Cognitive Aging ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Reaction Time Task ◽  
Reaction Time Data ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Time Task ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Second Wave

In order to model within-person (WP) variance in a reaction time task, we applied a mixed location scale model using 335 participants from the second wave of the Zurich Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging. The age of the respondents and the performance in another reaction time task were used to explain individual differences in the WP variance. To account for larger variances due to slower reaction times, we also used the average of the predicted individual reaction time (RT) as a predictor for the WP variability. Here, the WP variability was a function of the mean. At the same time, older participants were more variable and those with better performance in another RT task were more consistent in their responses.

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