Asymmetric Causal Attributions to Environmental Influences for Prosocial Versus Antisocial Behavior.

IF 1.2 4区 心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Matthew S Lebowitz, Kathryn Tabb, Paul S Appelbaum
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Abstract

Several recent studies have explored how people may favor different explanations for others' behavior depending on the moral or evaluative valence of the behavior in question. This research tested whether people would be less willing to believe that a person's environment played a role in causing her to exhibit antisocial (as compared to prosocial) behavior. In three experiments, participants read a description of a person engaging in either antisocial or prosocial behavior. Participants were less willing to endorse environmental causes of antisocial (versus prosocial) behavior when the environmental influence in question was witnessing others behaving similarly, either during childhood (Experiment 1) or recently (Experiment 2), or being directly encouraged by others to engage in the behavior described (Experiment 3). These results could be relevant to understanding why people resist attributing wrongdoing to causes outside of individual control in some cases.

环境影响对亲社会行为和反社会行为的非对称因果归因。
最近有几项研究探讨了人们如何根据有关行为的道德或评价价值,对他人的行为做出不同的解释。这项研究测试了人们是否不太愿意相信一个人的环境在导致她表现出反社会行为(与亲社会行为相比)方面起了作用。在三项实验中,参与者阅读了关于一个人从事反社会或亲社会行为的描述。当环境影响是指在童年(实验 1)或最近(实验 2)目睹他人做出类似行为,或受到他人直接鼓励做出描述中的行为(实验 3)时,受试者不太愿意认可反社会(相对于亲社会)行为的环境原因。这些结果可能有助于理解为什么在某些情况下人们不愿将错误行为归因于个人无法控制的原因。
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Social Cognition
Social Cognition PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
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期刊介绍: An excellent resource for researchers as well as students, Social Cognition features reports on empirical research, self-perception, self-concept, social neuroscience, person-memory integration, social schemata, the development of social cognition, and the role of affect in memory and perception. Three broad concerns define the scope of the journal: - The processes underlying the perception, memory, and judgment of social stimuli - The effects of social, cultural, and affective factors on the processing of information The behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes.
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