Matters of Life and Death: Justice in Judgments of Wrongful Death
| Autor: | Alison P. Lenton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
Value (ethics)
education.field_of_study Equity (economics) Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject humanities Wrongful death Damages Justice (ethics) Prejudice Distributive justice Psychology education Social psychology Socioeconomic status health care economics and organizations media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 37:1191-1218 |
| ISSN: | 1559-1816 0021-9029 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00209.x |
| Popis: | Two experiments investigated the influence of social categories on mock juror judgments of wrongful death compensatory damages. The research also examined whether these cues—decedent race, parental status, age, and socioeconomic status— differentially affected noneconomic and economic awards and, further, the extent to which jurors’ distributive justice concerns could explain the findings. Results revealed a decedent’s parental status to consistently impact noneconomic awards; whereas his parental status, age, and socioeconomic status all consistently affected economic awards. Decedent race did not inform participants’ judgments. These results were in close alignment with the values participants expressed (Study 2) regarding the use of social categories in compensatory damage awards. Overall, the pattern of findings supports a distributive justice account. It is often necessary to place a dollar value on human life. This need typically arises when there has been a wrongful death caused by negligent or |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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