Abuse history and culpability judgments: Implications for battered spouse syndrome.

Holloway, Colin P.; Wiener, Richard L.

doi:10.1037/law0000167

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“…As discussed above, we argue that while antecedent factors like cognitive stereotypes play a prominent role in determining how people evaluate cases of potential wrong doing, moral emotions translate these subjective views of situational facts into judgments of culpability and responsibility. Indeed, there is a growing body of work that demonstrates the influence of specific emotions (e.g., anger, disgust, fear, happiness) beyond their valence (pleasantness vs. unpleasantness) in legal decision-making contexts (Bornstein & Wiener, 2006; Georges et al, 2013; Holloway, & Wiener, 2018; Petty & Wiener, 2019; Wiener et al, 2014). We theorize that moral emotions, those that are associated with the interests and/or wellbeing of society or at least of persons other than the evaluator (Haidt, 2003), would be ascendant.…”

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The public’s judgment of sex trafficked women: Blaming the victim?

Wiener¹,

Berry²,

Wertheimer³

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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A victim-centered approach to fighting sex trafficking can result in apprehension and prosecution of traffickers and offer needed services to survivors. However, law enforcement officers frequently arrest sextrafficking survivors for prostitution in accordance with state law. This study examined the psychology of public reactions and judgments of sex-trafficking survivors demonstrating the importance of situational factors, cognitive stereotypes, and moral emotions. Using Stereotype Content Modeling to measure the stereotypes that 762 community members held about prostitutes, we found shared stereotypes that were low in competence (i.e., capable and skilled) and warmth (i.e., good-natured and friendly). These participants later read modified case facts from United States v. Bell (United States v. Bell, 761 F.3d (8th Cir. 2014)) that varied survivor history of prostitution, vulnerability, and prostitution as a subsequent livelihood. Participants who stereotyped prostitutes as low in warmth and competence were the ones most certain police should arrest the survivor. Moral emotion analyses further showed that a survivor with no prior prostitution history and who came from a nonvulnerable background invoked disgust and contempt, which predicted a higher certainty of the arrest. Moral emotions fully mediated the relationship between the interacting case facts and arrest certainty for the trafficking survivor. Future directions and policy implications are discussed. Public Significance StatementParticipants who stereotyped prostitutes as low in warmth and competence were more certain police should arrest the survivor of sex trafficking for violating prostitution laws as were those who read about a survivor with no prior prostitution history and who came from a nonvulnerable background, in part, as a result of the disgust and contempt which people felt toward the survivor. The results suggest that efforts to educate the public about victim-centered approaches to sex trafficking could lead to healthier outcomes for the survivors as well as more effective prosecution of traffickers.

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“…A criticism is that the resulting scale has no zero value. The index that we used here (see also Holloway & Wiener, 2018) avoids that problem by assigning 50% the equivalent rating of uncertain not guilty and uncertain guilty as the midpoint value of the scale.…”

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Wertheimer³

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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“…Participants were more generally supportive of the proposed First Step Act policy with a mean support certainty of 60 out of 100 (observed range = 0 to 100, M = 60.34 , SD = 35.84, skewness = −.57, kurtosis = −1.25). Holloway and Wiener (2018) as well as Wiener et al (in press) used this process in prior law and psychology research to produce continuous dependent variables.…”

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Incorporating emotion into cue-based political judgment modeling.

Holloway¹,

Wiener²

2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Although the influence of partisanship on American voter behavior is well documented, there are political decisions when party elites are either silent or not in agreement where parties might hold less sway. The present research theorized that in such cases, voters' emotional projections about the policy rather than a review of available information about the law predict their decisions. This study took a policy capturing approach to modeling political judgment by using participant responses to a proposed policy to create a series of regression models in which partisanship, forecasted emotions, and utilization of policy-relevant cues predicted support for the First Step Act, a bipartisan policy which did not receive united support from either political party. Results showed that affective forecasts regarding the Act were the most robust predictors of voter support. Further, voters were inconsistent in identifying which policy relevant cue they were most responsive to when deciding to support the policy. Finally, results showed that a fast and frugal model which predicted support using the two cues most important to each voter was just as accurate as a model which predicted support using voter response to all cues. These findings suggest that when voters do not have clear direction from partisan affiliation, they turn to their emotional reaction to the policy as a source of guidance in their political judgment. Further, when voters do consider policy-relevant information, their support for the policy can be predicted based on how they respond to one or two issues.

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“…The “Battered Woman Syndrome” perspective, a sub‐type of posttraumatic stress disorder, explains the conditions of women who have experienced at least two persistent cycles of IPV and has been applied within political and legal domains (Goodmark, 2009; Holloway & Wiener, 2018; Walker, 2006). The power and control paradigm posits violence as a mechanism of control and focuses narrowly on interrelated strategies employed by violent or abusive men to maintain their dominance such as intimidation, coercion, isolation, emotional and economic abuse (Chavis & Hill, 2008; Maldonado & Murphy, 2021).…”

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Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities

Behrendt

2022

Sociology Compass

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Indigenous women in the United States experience disproportionately higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) compared to their non‐Indigenous counterparts. Through a framework of settler colonialism, this article examines how settler colonial gender practices disrupted and eroded generational patterns of gender roles and power relationships within Indigenous communities, contributing over time to today's higher levels of IPV perpetrated against Indigenous women. I argue that future research on IPV must attend to the historical, contemporary, and legal impacts of settler colonial policies and laws that contribute to increased rates of violence within marginalized and racialized communities. In this article, I first review dominant theories of IPV, then review how a theoretical framework of settler colonialism expands our understanding of IPV in Indigenous communities, and, finally, address the impacts of federal policies on Indigenous sovereign rights regarding violence against women.

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Abuse history and culpability judgments: Implications for battered spouse syndrome.

Cited by 3 publications

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The public’s judgment of sex trafficked women: Blaming the victim?

The public’s judgment of sex trafficked women: Blaming the victim?

Incorporating emotion into cue-based political judgment modeling.

Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities

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