Wikipedia’s citation for this is: Tavris, Carol; Elliot Aronson (2008). Mistakes were made (but not by me). Pinter and Martin. pp. 26–29. This book’s first 55 pages are viewable on Google Books. I’ll attempt to link directly to the relevant section here but it’s an ugly URL so I’m not sure it’ll work.
Citation 17 looks like just the thing you’re looking for, but the viewable portion of their citations section cuts off just too early on both Amazon and Google Books. Thankfully some searching turns it up readily. I don’t know one academic database from another, let alone which you might have access to, but here’s a link to ScienceDirect. The paper is “The physiology of catharsis” by Michael Kahn.
The book’s discussion implies that there is other work that supports this study (“The first experiment that demonstrated this actually came as a complete surprise to the investigator...”), but there are no other relevant citations in that section. Their second example, playground bullying, has rather than a supporting citation a quote from a Dostoevsky novel.
I don’t have time to do further searching myself at the moment, but from their discussion I’d try investigating the term “dissonance theory” next.
Some googling lead me to the Wikipedia article on cognitive dissonance (this link should get you to the right spot on the page).
Wikipedia’s citation for this is: Tavris, Carol; Elliot Aronson (2008). Mistakes were made (but not by me). Pinter and Martin. pp. 26–29. This book’s first 55 pages are viewable on Google Books. I’ll attempt to link directly to the relevant section here but it’s an ugly URL so I’m not sure it’ll work.
Citation 17 looks like just the thing you’re looking for, but the viewable portion of their citations section cuts off just too early on both Amazon and Google Books. Thankfully some searching turns it up readily. I don’t know one academic database from another, let alone which you might have access to, but here’s a link to ScienceDirect. The paper is “The physiology of catharsis” by Michael Kahn.
The book’s discussion implies that there is other work that supports this study (“The first experiment that demonstrated this actually came as a complete surprise to the investigator...”), but there are no other relevant citations in that section. Their second example, playground bullying, has rather than a supporting citation a quote from a Dostoevsky novel.
I don’t have time to do further searching myself at the moment, but from their discussion I’d try investigating the term “dissonance theory” next.