The Implicit Aggression in Adolescents: The Priming Effect of Internet Violent Stimulus

The goals of the current study used field experiment were to investigate relations between internet violent games and the implicit aggression in adolescents with a sample of 86 middle school students. The results showed that: there is a gender difference when adolescents are affected by implicit aggressiveness that under different priming threshold levels. Compared with girls, supraliminal priming materials are easier to prime boys´ implicit aggressiveness; compared with boys, girls are more likely to be affected by subliminal priming materials. The adolescents who have high level of aggressiveness are easier to be affected by aggressive materials, and significantly increase their implicit aggressiveness in the aggressive priming condition. This result shows that the adolescents who have high aggressive level are more vulnerable to the effects of network violent stimulus and prefer to use violent ways to solve problems.