Association, culture, and collective imprisonment: tests of a two-route causal-moral model

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Abstract

The authors tested a model in which a group's association with an offender impacts collective imprisonment indirectly via dispositional attribution and blame to the group, culture does so indirectly via blame, and severity of outcome directly determines imprisonment. In two experiments, Easterners and Westerners made dispositional attribution, blame, and imprisonment responses to an offender's group associated with him by commission versus omission and with high versus low severity of outcome for the victim. Commission generated higher responses to the group than did omission. Collective blame and imprisonment responses were higher by Easterners than Westerners. The severity of outcome affected imprisonment in Experiment 1. Results of Experiment 1 suggested merit of the two-route causal-moral model; those of Experiment 2 confirmed the model.

Publication Date

1-4-2012

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Volume

Vol.34

Issue

Iss.3

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