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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Autor principal: Xu, Yian (Autor)
Otros Autores: Berryessa, Colleen M. ; Dowd, Mackenzie ; Penta, Darrell ; Coley, John D.
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2022
En: Psychology, crime & law
Año: 2022, Volumen: 28, Número: 3, Páginas: 246-267
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
Expertise
Sentencing
Culpability
Crime
Essentialism