To escape blame, don't be a hero-Be a victim

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 516-519

  Gray, Kurt ^a   Wegner, Daniel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blame; Dyadic morality; Legal judgments; Mind perception; Moral typecasting; Morality; Person perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 79651472914     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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