One hundred thirteen primary-school students (age ran- ge 9–12 years, mean age = 10.04 ± 0.9 years, 49 girls) participated in this study. All participants were from Chaoyang Primary School in Chongqing, China. All participants were right-handed, and none reported a history of psychiatric or neurological illnesses. From the 113 participants in the neuroimaging protocol, 36 were excluded because of missing data (n = 9) or excessive head motion (n = 27). Excessive head motion was defined as a maximal displacement > 2.5 mm or a maximal rotation > 2.5 degrees throughout the course of the scan, according to recent influential methodological rsFC study (Allen et al., 2011; Liao et al., 2018). These exclusions yielded a final sample of 77 participants (mean age = 10.17 ± 0.95 years, 42 girls). The independent-sample t-test was used to assess the effect of attrition (0 = excluded, 1 = remained), and no significant differences were found neither in aggression types nor in personality traits between those remained and those excluded (the Supplementary File). All participants and their parents signed the informed consent document prior to the experiment and received an honorarium at the end of the study. Ethical approval of this study was granted by the Ethics Committee of the Southwest University, and all procedures were in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki).
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