Fig. 6
From: Men’s impulsivity underpins gender differences in aggressive behaviour
Men’s impulsivity or women’s non-physical aggression?. We predicted that men would be more impacted by our Forced Break condition due to their greater propensity to engage in impulsive behaviour. (A) As predicted, aggression in pairs containing at least one man was significantly decreased by forced breaks, and aggression in woman-woman pairs was not affected. Note that since our data was between participants, the subtraction visually represented in Panel A is a simulated subtraction built from our distributions (i.e., using bootstrapping), but all reported stats are from our raw data, not the simulated subtraction. (B) Given women’s reported aversion to specifically physical forms of aggression, we analysed verbal aggression from audio recordings of our task. We found that the patterns observed for physical aggression by aggressor-target pairing is identical for verbal aggression, where woman-woman pairs used significantly less aggression than pairs containing at least one man. Data represents counts of verbalizations.
