APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
'he Ignited the Napkin' Versus ‘the Napkin Ignited': Linguistic Cues, Target Race, and Perspective-Taking Affect Judgments of Blame and Financial Liability
- Mioko Sudo
University of Florida - Jenna Durant
University of Florida - Rebecca Van Valkenburgh
University of Florida - Michael Farrar
University of Florida
Abstract
Undergraduate participants’ attribution of blame and financial liability to a protagonist who caused an accident were affected by (1) subtle linguistic cues used to describe the accident, (2) the race of the protagonist, and (3) participants’ tendency to spontaneously take others’ perspectives, with no significant interactions between the three factors.
Judgment and Decision Making
