Rodney King and O. J. Revisited: The Impact of Race and Defendant Empathy Induction on Judicial Decisions

Autor:	John F. Dovidio, Jeffrey Taddei, Amanda Jordav, Leslie Maclean, Carolyn Simmons, William Reed, Duane Thomas, James D. Johnson
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	White (horse) Social Psychology Social perception media_common.quotation_subject Judicial opinion Empathy humanities Developmental psychology Race (biology) behavior and behavior mechanisms Situational ethics Attribution Psychology Social psychology Adjudication media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 32:1208-1223
ISSN:	1559-1816 0021-9029
DOI:	10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb01432.x
Popis:	White university students participated in a study to investigate the impact of defendant race and empathetic induction on a subsequent juror decision-making task. Participants read a passage involving a Black or a White defendant in a criminal case. They were subsequently induced to feel no empathy, low empathy, or high empathy for the defendant. When compared to participants in the low- and control empathy conditions, those in the high-empathy condition reported greater target empathy, made attributions that were more situational, and assigned more lenient punishments. The results also indicate that group membership can moderate the impact of empathetic induction. When compared to the participants in the Black defendant condition, those in the White defendant condition reported greater target empathy, made attributions that were more situational, and assigned more lenient punishments. Implications for both empathy and judicial decision-making research are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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