Visual experience in self and social judgment: How a biased majority claim a superior minority

Balcetis, Emily; Cardenas, Stephanie

doi:10.1080/15298868.2018.1466724

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“…There is some tendency for people to attribute other people's actions to inner, dispositional causes but to attribute their own actions to external, situational causes (Jones & Nisbett, 1971), which already suggests that they expect their own moral misdeeds to be judged and excused by a different set of standards than those that apply to other people. People construe their own behavior with self-serving attributional biases (Zuckerman, 1979) and other self-flattering patterns (for reviews, see Greenwald, 1980;Taylor & Brown, 1988;Balcetis & Cardenas, 2018) that do not enter into their judgments of others. People judge other people by their actions but themselves by their intentions (Kruger & Dunning, 1999), which again suggests different criteria for moral evaluation.…”

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Moral self-judgment is stronger for future than past actions

Sjåstad

Baumeister

2019

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When, if ever, would a person want to be held responsible for his or her choices? Across four studies (N=915), people favored more extreme rewards and punishments for their future than their past actions. This included thinking that they should receive more blame and punishment for future misdeeds than for past ones, and more credit and reward for future good deeds than for past ones. The tendency to moralize the future more than the past was mediated by anticipating (one's own) emotional reactions and concern about one's reputation, which was stronger in the future as well. The findings fit the pragmatic view that people moralize the future partly to guide their choices and actions, such as by increasing their motivation to restrain selfish impulses and build long-term cooperative relationships with others. People typically believe that the future is open and changeable, while the past is not. We conclude that the psychology of moral accountability has a strong future component.

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Moral self-judgment is stronger for future than past actions

Sjåstad

Baumeister

2019

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Shielded perspectives: How visual attention moderates the link between social identity and biased judgments about police

Qu‐Lee,

Balcetis

2024

Social & Personality Psych

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Individuals from different social groups form divergent legal punishment decisions about police officers engaged in altercations with civilians despite viewing the same visual evidence. We review empirical and archival data in the legal domain to offer four vision‐based moderators of polarized legal judgments determined after viewing evidence with a focus on research relevant to police‐civilian altercations. We discuss how selective visual attention, flittering and staring tendencies, differences in cognitive engagement, and visual confirmation bias contribute to divergent legal decisions within and across social groups. By incorporating visual experience into models of legal decision‐making, we reconcile inconsistencies regarding the impact of social group identity on bias in police punishment.

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Visual experience in self and social judgment: How a biased majority claim a superior minority

Cited by 2 publications

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Moral self-judgment is stronger for future than past actions

Moral self-judgment is stronger for future than past actions

Shielded perspectives: How visual attention moderates the link between social identity and biased judgments about police

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