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People as intuitive prosecutors: The impact of social-control goals on attributions of responsibility |
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| Authors: | Philip E Tetlock Penny S Visser Mark Polifroni Sara Beth Elson Phillip Rescober |
| Institution: | a Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1900, USA b University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA c National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore d The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Abstract: | Three experiments explored determinants of punitive character attributions to norm violators. Experiment 1 showed that ideological conservatism and manipulated threat to society increased anger and attributional punitiveness when there was ambiguity about culpability. Experiment 2 showed that informing observers that norm violations were widespread and rarely punished increased attributional punitiveness by activating anger-charged retributive goals. Experiment 3 showed that liberals and conservatives alike felt justified in assigning greater blame to high-status perpetrators who commit acts of negligence with more severe consequences but that only conservatives felt justified in doing so for low-status perpetrators. Overall, the results reinforce the hypothesis that societal threat activates a prosecutorial mindset identifiable by a correlated cluster of attributions, emotions, punishment goals and punitiveness. |
| Keywords: | Attributions Responsibility Intuitive prosecutor Social control Ideology Self-correction Severity effect Extenuation Exacerbation Accountability |
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