Social attitude of resentment that involves implicit verbal or motor responses. Plutchik considers it as a mixture of anger and disgust, associated with indignation, contempt and resentment, and Saul as a motivating force (conscious or unconscious), directed to insult or destroy some object, hostility usually being accompanied by the feeling or emotion of anger. .
- Hostility is a sustained feeling in which resentment, indignation, acrimony and animosity arise. It is a cynical attitude about human nature in general. And in specific situations it can lead to resentment and violence, although most often the hostility is expressed in very subtle ways that do not violate social norms.
- Hostility involves negative beliefs about other people, as well as the attribution that their behavior is antagonistic or threatening to us. The hostile attribution It refers precisely to the perception of other people as threatening and tends to produce aggressive reactions against them.
1. The triggers of hostility are physical violence and suffering indirect hostility. It is triggered when we perceive or attribute in other people, towards ourselves or towards loved ones in our environment, attitudes of irritability, negativity, resentment, mistrust or suspicion.
We could say that hostility is a “contagious” emotion.
2. The cognitive processing Hostility occurs in situations that happen slowly and in which there is a certain degree of prediction. The event obstructs the person’s planned plans. And, finally, it presents a relative degree of urgency to face both the event and its consequences.
Regarding the assessment of the possibility of facing the situation, the reason causing it is the intention or negligence of another person. In such conditions, the person values that the consequences can be controlled and to a certain extent to cope with the situation as well as adapt to it.
Finally, it is considered that what happened is not in accordance with the social and personal norms that could be considered acceptable.
Subjective effects.
Hostility usually involves angry feelings. It includes various anger, resentment, disgust or contempt.
Barefoot describes the subjective component of hostility as negative feelings towards others, the behavior of others can be interpreted as antagonistic or threatening, and can serve as justification for the hostility one has towards the antagonistic behaviors of others.
He makes a distinction between cynicism (negative beliefs about human nature in general) and hostile attributions (beliefs that the antagonistic behavior of others is directed specifically toward ourselves).
Physiological Activity
They are basically similar to those of anger, but more moderate in intensity and, in turn, more sustained over time and resistant to habituation.
Coping:
Negative mood state, characterized by expressions of irritability. The manifestation of hostility is similar to that of anger as it is closely related to aggression.