Skin Conductivity Responses to Images of War and Sports in Men and Women: An Evolutionary Perspective

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40750-022-00186-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40750-022-00186-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-022-00186-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40750-022-00186-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Skin Conductivity Responses to Images of War and Sports in Men and Women: An Evolutionary Perspective

Original language description

Objectives The male warrior hypothesis suggests that men have evolved psychological mechanisms to form aggressive coalitions against members of outgroups, which may explain men&apos;s propensity to engage in warfare, as well as team sports. We examined gender differences in skin conductivity and attitudes toward war after exposing participants to video imagery depicting sports and war from a sample of young adults from Slovakia. Methods We measured skin conductivity responses using electrodermal activity (EDA) when participants watched three short videos: Football, World War II, and Control. Then, implicit and explicit attitudes toward war and subjective arousal of the three videos were examined using questionnaires. Results Men showed higher maximal skin conductivity when watching a team sport video, compared to a control video. Skin conductivity during a war video did not significantly differ from a sport or control video. In contrast, women showed highest maximal skin conductivity when watching a war video, followed by the sport and control videos, but these differences were not statistically significant. When the videos were subjectively rated by the same participants, men rated team sports and war as similarly arousing, but ratings of these videos were not significantly different for women. Conclusions These results suggest that visual cues of warfare and team sports influence skin conductivity, but we did not find support for the hypothesis that sport is a substitute for war. Because this study was based exclusively on visual cues, we discuss additional possibilities that could influence future investigations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

ISSN

2198-7335

e-ISSN

2198-7335

Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

263-279

UT code for WoS article

000746789700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85123485775