This study examined relationship among hostile attributional bias, anger and cognitive function.
In the study 1, we examined relationship between hostile attributional bias and states of anger in university students. As a result, the hostility attribution bias of college students was confirmed. Because there was
university students who indicated high hostility attribution in an unclear intention of the other. In addition, the tendency of the university stude nt’s intention attribution is significantly higher in when the other is acquaintance. And, it was indicated that the university students showed more strong hostility attribution bias to friends than the others. A positive correlation was found between hostility attribution bias and state anger. It was shown that the hostility attributable bias group often experiences
hostile interpretation, anger feeling even in daily life.
In Study 2, we examined the relationship between execution function, hostility attribution bias and anger expression. As the result, high cognitive flexibility group indicated significantly higher score than the low group in unintentional attribution. We examined the relationship between performance function and anger expression, but no significant difference was found. From these results, it is considered that the high cognitive flexibility group can be made various intention attributions in a situation where the intention of the other is unclear
