Victim Sensitivity and the Accuracy of Social Judgments
Victim Sensitivity and the Accuracy of Social Judgments
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DOI：
10.1177/0146167212440887
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
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4
通讯作者：
Jekel, Marc
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作者：
Gollwitzer, Mario;Rothmund, Tobias;Jekel, Marc
最近的理论受害者的敏感性和不道德行为之间的关系预测，受害者的敏感性与不对称的重点线索与不可信相比，线索与可信。这篇文章中的社会预测的准确性的假设及其后果进行了调查。在第一项研究中，参与者对35张情绪表达不同的电脑动画面孔的可信度进行了评估。受害者敏感度高的人比受害者敏感度低的人更不信任中立和敌对的面孔，而友好的面孔则没有这种效果。在研究2中，参与者预测合作的基础上的最小信息的56个目标。预测的准确性与受害者敏感度呈负相关，受害者敏感度高的人系统地低估了目标的合作性。因此，受害者敏感的个体对不可信线索的不对称关注似乎会损害而不是改善他们的社会判断。
Recent theorizing on the relation between victim sensitivity and unethical behavior predicts that victim sensitivity is related to an asymmetrical focus on cues associated with untrustworthiness compared to cues associated with trustworthiness. This hypothesis and its consequences for the accuracy of social predictions are investigated in this article. In Study 1, participants rated the trustworthiness of 35 computer-animated faces that differed in their emotional expression. People high in victim sensitivity rated neutral and hostile faces more untrustworthy than people low in victim sensitivity, whereas no such effect was found for friendly faces. In Study 2, participants predicted the cooperativeness of 56 targets on the basis of minimal information. The accuracy of predictions was negatively related to victim sensitivity, and people high in victim sensitivity systematically underestimated targets' cooperativeness. Thus, the asymmetrical focus on untrustworthiness cues among victim-sensitive individuals seems to impair rather than improve their social judgments.