In Recent Studies of Catharsis and Aggression,Bushman,Baumeister,and Stack (1999)found That

question 58

Multiple Choice

In recent studies of catharsis and aggression,Bushman,Baumeister,and Stack (1999) found that

• A) catharsis reduces aggressiveness for everyone, whether or not they believe it will.
• B) catharsis and venting anger increases anger rather than reducing it.
• C) in a version of the self-fulfilling prophecy, if people believe that catharsis effectively reduces their aggressive behaviour it will, if they don't believe catharsis reduces their aggressive behaviour then it won't.
• D) catharsis reduces aggressiveness for men, but not women.
• E) most people believe that catharsis is an effective way to reduce aggressive behaviours.

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