A5029384913- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Agricultural Systems and Practices
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Online Learning and Analytics
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2022-2024
Past work suggests that victim impact statements (VISs) encourage jurors to take victims' perspectives, but this has not been explored empirically. Across four experiments (total N = 881), the present research examines effects of perspective taking and crime expressed in VISs on juror perceptions defendants. In Experiment 1, mock read a capital murder case prompted them (or not) included were high or low victims. Results indicate influenced culpability for defendant, did not. 2 used an armed...
Bandura argues that individuals are more likely to engage in social learning when they identify with a model and motivated or rewarded. Therefore, the present work, we investigate how these two key factors, perceived similarity affiliative motivation, influence extent which tuning align their views an interaction partner—especially if partner’s attitudes differ from larger group. Experiment 1 (170 participants) explored role of through group membership needing work collaboratively...