Essentialist thinking predicts culpability and punishment judgments

People often perceive social groups (e.g. ethnic groups, occupations, gender groups) as having fixed membership and discrete boundaries. This paper proposes that essentialist beliefs about abstract crime concepts, as naturally defined and universally coherent, play a role in culpability and sentenci...

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Main Author: Xu, Yian (Author)
Contributors: Berryessa, Colleen M. ; Dowd, Mackenzie ; Penta, Darrell ; Coley, John D.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Psychology, crime & law
Year: 2022, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 246-267
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Expertise
Sentencing
Culpability
Crime
Essentialism