Consideration of future consequences (CFC) serves as a buffer against aggression related to psychopathy

The purpose of the current study was to explore the protective roles of the consideration of future consequences (CFC) (high CFC-Future and low CFC-Immediate) in attenuating aggression related to psychopathy using proactive aggression (Study 1) and cyber-aggression (Study 2) behavior indexes. All data were collected in May-October 2016. In study 1, participants were college students ages from 17 to 26 years. They were recruited from six different universities including Southwest University, Minnan Normal University, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Guizhou Medical University, Nanyang Institute of Technology and Guangxi Normal University. The survey was administered in the participants’ ordinary classroom setting by paper-pencil type. In study 2, we posted the questionnaires on the Sojump website, which is a professional online questionnaire survey, assessment and voting platform that helped us collect the data. Participants were adults who comment on news websites and their ages ranged from 20 to 55 years. Participants’ professions included students, public institution staff, community workers, business staff, individual households and other employment. Participants’ educational backgrounds included high school, junior college, bachelor’s degree and graduate degree.