Rejecting victims of misfortune reduces delay discounting
Rejecting victims of misfortune reduces delay discounting
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jesp.2013.11.002
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发表时间：
2014-03-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Sutton, Robbie M.
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作者：
Callan, Mitchell J.;Harvey, Annelie J.;Sutton, Robbie M.
对无辜受害者的贬损可能会增强接受者对世界是一个正义之地的隐含信念。这种信念的一个关键理论结果是，能够把较小的短期回报放在一边，转而获得更大的长期回报。在两项使用延迟贴现范式的研究中，研究了受害者贬损和参与者对较早较小的奖励与较大较晚的奖励偏好之间的经验关系。在研究1(n=381)中，大学生和互联网用户贬低不幸的受害者越多，他们随后就越少对较大的后来的奖励打折扣，但只有当他们对正义的信念受到威胁时(不幸的肇事者没有受到惩罚)。在研究2(n=238)中，告知互联网用户受害者品德不良(相对于良好)可以减少延迟折扣。这些结果表明，贬低不幸的受害者，尽管对他人造成了损害，但通过搁置较小的-较早的奖励-而不是较大的-稍后的奖励，为自己带来了重要的心理好处。(C)2013 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
The derogation of innocent victims may bolster perceivers' implicit faith that the world is a just place. A key theoretical outcome of this faith is the ability to put aside smaller, short-term rewards for larger, long-term rewards. The empirical relation between victim derogation and participants' preferences for smaller-sooner versus larger-later rewards was examined in two studies using delay-discounting paradigms. In Study 1 (n = 381), the more college students and Internet users derogated a victim of misfortune, the less they subsequently discounted larger-later rewards, but only when their faith in justice was threatened (perpetrators of the misfortune were unpunished). In Study 2 (n = 238), informing Internet users that a victim was of bad (versus good) moral character decreased delay discounting. These results demonstrate that derogating victims of misfortune, although damaging to others, yields an important psychological benefit for the self by putting aside smaller-sooner rewards for larger-later rewards. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.