Supplementary Materials for: Who may punish how? The Influence of Punisher Status, Transgression Type, and Justice Sensitivity on the Assessment of Punishment Motives in Middle Childhood

Strauß, Sophie

doi:10.23668/psycharchives.5007

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“…We added a restorative response option and a manipulation check (doing nothing). We pretested different vignette and consequentialist punishment versions and selected those options that caused the most moral outrage, were considered realistic and worthy of punishment, and consequentialist punishment versions by teachers that were considered most realistic and preventive [see the Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) available at https://dx.doi.org/10.23668/ psycharchives.5007 (Strauß, 2021)].…”

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Who May Punish How?

Strauß

Bondü

2022

Zeitschrift für Psychologie

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Abstract. According to the intuitive retributivism hypothesis, individuals favor retributivist (getting even) over consequentialist (prevention of norm transgressions) motives when asked to rate the appropriateness of punishment responses representing these motives. This hypothesis has rarely been tested in children; restorative motives (norm clarification, settlement) and potentially influencing variables have rarely been considered. We had 170 elementary school children ( M = 9.26, SD = 1.01) rate the appropriateness of six punishment responses by themselves and teachers for two types of norm transgression as well as their justice sensitivity. Children rated punishment responses thought to represent restorative motives as most appropriate, followed by special preventive and other retributive motives, revenge, general preventive motives, and doing nothing for both themselves and their teachers. Transgression type did not influence appropriateness ratings. Justice sensitivity was related to a stronger tendency to punish. Findings favor intuitive pacifism over intuitive retributivism, indicate children’s preference for target-specific, communicative punishment, and show only small influences by other variables.

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Section: Measures Punishment Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Open Data Electronic supplementary material (ESM) is available at https:// dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5007 (Strauß, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%