Vincenzo J Olivett, Madeleine Stults, David S March
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摘要
在美国,警察和平民之间的冲突充满了危险后果的可能性。与此同时,无处不在的数字和社交媒体使得观察警察与平民的暴力冲突比以往任何时候都容易。也许正因为如此,最近的证据表明,美国人会自然而然地将警察与身体威胁的来源联系在一起,并在行为上对警察做出反应。然而,人们对暴力警察遭遇和自动警察威胁之间的相互作用知之甚少。四项研究(N = 857)揭示了一种相互加强的动态,其中(a)自动警察-威胁关联塑造逮捕期间的攻击感知,(b)逮捕期间的攻击感知影响自动警察-威胁关联,以及(c)自动警察-威胁关联的变化影响下游的攻击感知。也就是说,在逮捕过程中,人们通过他们现有的警察威胁联想来感知攻击,而这些感知反过来又强化了这些联想。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA,版权所有)。
Downward spiral: Police-threat associations and perceptions of aggression during arrests are mutually reinforcing.
In the United States, encounters among police officers and civilians are laden with the potential for dangerous outcomes. At the same time, the ubiquity of digital and social media has made observing violent police-civilian encounters easier than ever. Perhaps consequently, recent evidence suggests that Americans automatically associate the police with and behaviorally respond to officers as a source of physical threat. However, little is known about the interplay between observations of violent police encounters and automatic police-threat associations. Four studies (N = 857) reveal a mutually reinforcing dynamic in which (a) automatic police-threat associations shape perceptions of aggression during arrests, (b) perceptions of aggression during arrests influence automatic police-threat associations, and (c) changes in automatic police-threat associations influence downstream perceptions of aggression. That is, people perceive aggression during arrest encounters through the lens of their existing police-threat associations, and these perceptions in turn reinforce those associations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
期刊介绍:
Journal of personality and social psychology publishes original papers in all areas of personality and social psychology and emphasizes empirical reports, but may include specialized theoretical, methodological, and review papers.Journal of personality and social psychology is divided into three independently edited sections. Attitudes and Social Cognition addresses all aspects of psychology (e.g., attitudes, cognition, emotion, motivation) that take place in significant micro- and macrolevel social contexts.