Whereas the first two items are measures of direct and indirect aggression, respectively, the last item presumably tapped into the participant's willingness to turn the other cheek, so to speak.

Instead of having people beating each other up in the lab, they chose a more indirect expression of aggression: putting spicy sauce on another person's food.

It also found that the traditional implicit social attitude would affect the social cognitive model of implicit aggression by the way of indirect priming.