Explaining our sins: Factors influencing offender accounts and anticipated victim responses

Autor:	Marti Hope Gonzales, Julie A. Haugen, Debra J. Manning
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Interpersonal relationship Explication Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Social perception Accidental Psychology Attribution Social psychology Excuse Social relation
Zdroj:	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 62:958-971
ISSN:	1939-1315 0022-3514
DOI:	10.1037/0022-3514.62.6.958
Popis:	Two studies examined the effects of offender blameworthiness, consequence severity, and offender gender on written accounts provided after a hypothetical predicament. Participants imagined themselves as the offending party in a predicament and provided written accounts after their victims' reproach. Accounts were coded using Schonbach's (1980) account taxonomy. Study 1 results showed that although concessionary strategies were the most prevalent overall, they were more prevalent for more blameworthy offenses than less blameworthy offenses. In Study 2, in which 3 levels of blameworthiness were used, offenders proffered significantly more concessions after negliglent acts than after either accidental or intentional acts, producing a curvilinear pattern. Again, accounts of men and women differed, with men proffering fewer and less complex concessions and more lies than did women
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