People as intuitive prosecutors: The impact of social-control goals on attributions of responsibility

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-209

  Tetlock, Philip E ^a   Visser, Penny S ^b   Singh, Ramadhar ^c   Polifroni, Mark ^d   Scott, Amanda ^d   Elson, Sara Beth ^d   Mazzocco, Philip ^d   Rescober, Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Attributions; Exacerbation; Extenuation; Ideology; Intuitive prosecutor; Responsibility; Self correction; Severity effect; Social control

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847281540     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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