What you did only matters if you are one of us: Offenders' group membership moderates the effect of criminal history on punishment severity

Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-26

  Gollwitzer, Mario ^a,b   Keller, Livia ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau ^*  (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black sheep effect; Ingroup favoritism; Punitiveness; Societal concerns

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249101073     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000004     Document Type: Article

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