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When Hurt Heroes Do Harm: Collective Guilt and Leniency toward War-Veteran Transgressors

abstract: Protectors who do harm are often punished more severely because their crime is perceived as a betrayal of trust. Two experiments test whether this will generalize to protectors who incur harm while serving in their protective role, and if not, whether collective guilt for the harm they suffered provides an explanation. Study 1 tested competing hypotheses that a veteran (versus civilian) with PTSD would be punished either more harshly because of the trust betrayal, or more leniently because of increased guilt about the harm the veteran suffered during war. Men and women were both more lenient toward a veteran (versus civilian) but this effect was mediated by collective guilt only among men. In Study 2, guilt inductions increased leniency among participants less likely to classify the veteran as an in-group member (women, low national identifiers), but not in those who are more likely to classify the veteran as an in-group member (men, high national identifiers), who were lenient without any guilt inductions. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Psychology 2015

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:29788
Date January 2015
ContributorsJay, Alexander C. (Author), Salerno, Jessica M (Advisor), Schweitzer, Nicholas (Committee member), Hall, Deborah (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format67 pages
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