Torture and judgments of guilt

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 233-235

  Gray, Kurt ^a   Wegner, Daniel M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blame; Dissonance; Guilt; Mind perception; Morality; Person perception; Psychology and the law; Torture

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449630993     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Bargh J.A., and Chartrand T.L. The mind in the middle: A practical guide to priming and automaticity research. In: Reis H.T., and Judd C.M. (Eds). Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology (2000), Cambridge University Press, New York
2. Carlsmith K.M., and Sood A.M. The fine line between interrogation and retribution. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45 1 (2009) 191-196
3. Cialdini R.B., Kenrick D.T., and Hoerig J.H. Victim derogation in the Lerner paradigm: Just world or just justification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 33 6 (1976) 719-724
4. Festinger L. A theory of cognitive dissonance (1957), Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
5. In: Greenberg K.J., and Dratel J.L. (Eds). The torture papers: The road to Abu Ghraib (2005), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
6. Gray K., and Wegner D.M. Moral typecasting: Divergent perceptions of moral agents and moral patients. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 96 3 (2009) 505-520
7. Janoff-Bulman R. Erroneous assumptions: Popular belief in the effectiveness of torture interrogation. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 13 4 (2007) 429-435
8. Lerner M.J. Justice, guilt, and veridical perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 33 (1971) 178-187
9. Lerner M.J., and Simmons C.H. Observer's reaction to the 'innocent victim': Compassion or rejection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 4 2 (1966) 203-210
10. McCoy A.W. A question of torture: CIA interrogation, from the cold war (2006), Metropolitan Books, New York
11. Zanna M.P., and Cooper J. Dissonance and the pill: An attribution approach to studying the arousal properties of dissonance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 29 (1974) 703-709