Patrick Bergemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 252237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Bergemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergemann |
| SIGNATURE | BERGEMANN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2238-3191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Blindfolding, Perceptual Dehumanization and Tolerance for State‐Sanctioned Killing: A Theory of Illegitimate Punishment
The present work integrates cultural practices, perceptual psychology and social cognition to explore the psychological effects of blindfolding in state‐sanctioned punishment. Across four studies, we demonstrate how the use of blindfolds—a seemingly minor aspect of punishment rituals—attenuates configural face processing, a change we argue alters social behaviour. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrate that blindfolds are associated with a tolerance for har…
Organizational Scarring, Legal Consciousness, and the Diffusion of Local Government Litigation Against Opioid Manufacturers
Between 2017 and 2020, local government attorneys’ offices in the United States filed a surge of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Aimed at recovering the costs of the opioid epidemic, this “affirmative litigation” was a novel action for most of them. Participation necessitated a tectonic shift in how they conceptualized their roles vis-à-vis the law. To understand how this occurred, we use a mixed-methods approa…
Territoriality and the Emergence of Norms During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Although social norms are critical for regulating behavior, the emergence of new norms is rarely studied in consequential real-world settings. Thus, the conditions under which norms arise in certain communities but not in others are not well understood. In this article, we propose territoriality as a factor that helps to explain the unequal emergence of norms. When individuals experience a strong sense of territoriality over the physical spaces t…
How Social Influence Affects Reporting: Toward an Integration of Crime Reporting, Whistleblowing, and Denunciation
Reporting-often by ordinary individuals-is the most common means by which authorities become aware of crimes, misconduct, and other types of deviant behavior. In this article, I integrate research across a variety of disciplines and domains to review the role of social influence in the decision to report. Such influences operate at the individual, group, and societal levels to shape reporting behavior, as potential reporters respond to both direc…
From Social Alignment to Social Control: Reporting the Taliban in Afghanistan
In many settings, witnesses can report wrongdoing to internal authorities such as officials within an organization or to external authorities such as the police. We theorize this decision of where to report as rooted in the policing of group boundaries, as the use of different reporting channels symbolically affirms or disaffirms affiliation with different social categories. As such, both witnesses and other social actors have an interest in wher…
Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany
Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany
Reviewer: Robert Braun, UC Berkeley In 1933, Adolf Hitler complained to his advisors: “We are living at present in a sea of denunciations of human meanness.” A few months before, he had criminalized disagreement with the Nazi party and called upon German citizen to report “ideological offences” to newly established courts. As Hitler had hoped, denunciations started pouring in immediately. The Germany dictator was upset, however, with their overal…
Denunciation and Social Control
It has long been observed that centralized social control requires some level of cooperation from the populace. Without such assistance, control agents are unable to acquire the local knowledge necessary to locate and prosecute deviants. Yet why citizens cooperate with authorities, especially in the most repressive regimes, remains a puzzle. This article develops two models of such cooperation: in the first, authorities actively use incentives to…
Strange Bedfellows: Informal Relationships and Political Preference Formation within Boardinghouses, 1825-1841
This article presents a dynamic view of how institutions external to the state foster informal relationships that influence the voting preferences of elected officials. Institutions external to the state can activate different identities, potentially leading to outcomes at odds with predictions based on party identification and political ideology. This theoretical perspective is applied to a period of increasing partisanship and polarization—the …
Denunciation and Social Control
It has long been observed that centralized social control requires some level of cooperation from the populace. Without such assistance, control agents are unable to acquire the local knowledge necessary to locate and prosecute deviants. Yet why citizens cooperate with authorities, especially in the most repressive regimes, remains a puzzle. This article develops two models of such cooperation: in the first, authorities actively use incentives to…
Strange Bedfellows: Informal Relationships and Political Preference Formation within Boardinghouses, 1825-1841
This article presents a dynamic view of how institutions external to the state foster informal relationships that influence the voting preferences of elected officials. Institutions external to the state can activate different identities, potentially leading to outcomes at odds with predictions based on party identification and political ideology. This theoretical perspective is applied to a period of increasing partisanship and polarization—the …
Territoriality and the Emergence of Norms During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Although social norms are critical for regulating behavior, the emergence of new norms is rarely studied in consequential real-world settings. Thus, the conditions under which norms arise in certain communities but not in others are not well understood. In this article, we propose territoriality as a factor that helps to explain the unequal emergence of norms. When individuals experience a strong sense of territoriality over the physical spaces t…
From Social Alignment to Social Control: Reporting the Taliban in Afghanistan
In many settings, witnesses can report wrongdoing to internal authorities such as officials within an organization or to external authorities such as the police. We theorize this decision of where to report as rooted in the policing of group boundaries, as the use of different reporting channels symbolically affirms or disaffirms affiliation with different social categories. As such, both witnesses and other social actors have an interest in wher…
Strange Bedfellows: Informal Relationships and Political Preference Formation within Boardinghouses, 1825-1841
This article presents a dynamic view of how institutions external to the state foster informal relationships that influence the voting preferences of elected officials. Institutions external to the state can activate different identities, potentially leading to outcomes at odds with predictions based on party identification and political ideology. This theoretical perspective is applied to a period of increasing partisanship and polarization—the …
Denunciation and Social Control
It has long been observed that centralized social control requires some level of cooperation from the populace. Without such assistance, control agents are unable to acquire the local knowledge necessary to locate and prosecute deviants. Yet why citizens cooperate with authorities, especially in the most repressive regimes, remains a puzzle. This article develops two models of such cooperation: in the first, authorities actively use incentives to…
Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany
Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany
Reviewer: Robert Braun, UC Berkeley In 1933, Adolf Hitler complained to his advisors: “We are living at present in a sea of denunciations of human meanness.” A few months before, he had criminalized disagreement with the Nazi party and called upon German citizen to report “ideological offences” to newly established courts. As Hitler had hoped, denunciations started pouring in immediately. The Germany dictator was upset, however, with their overal…
From Social Alignment to Social Control: Reporting the Taliban in Afghanistan
In many settings, witnesses can report wrongdoing to internal authorities such as officials within an organization or to external authorities such as the police. We theorize this decision of where to report as rooted in the policing of group boundaries, as the use of different reporting channels symbolically affirms or disaffirms affiliation with different social categories. As such, both witnesses and other social actors have an interest in wher…
How Social Influence Affects Reporting: Toward an Integration of Crime Reporting, Whistleblowing, and Denunciation
Reporting-often by ordinary individuals-is the most common means by which authorities become aware of crimes, misconduct, and other types of deviant behavior. In this article, I integrate research across a variety of disciplines and domains to review the role of social influence in the decision to report. Such influences operate at the individual, group, and societal levels to shape reporting behavior, as potential reporters respond to both direc…
Blindfolding, Perceptual Dehumanization and Tolerance for State‐Sanctioned Killing: A Theory of Illegitimate Punishment
The present work integrates cultural practices, perceptual psychology and social cognition to explore the psychological effects of blindfolding in state‐sanctioned punishment. Across four studies, we demonstrate how the use of blindfolds—a seemingly minor aspect of punishment rituals—attenuates configural face processing, a change we argue alters social behaviour. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrate that blindfolds are associated with a tolerance for har…
Organizational Scarring, Legal Consciousness, and the Diffusion of Local Government Litigation Against Opioid Manufacturers
Between 2017 and 2020, local government attorneys’ offices in the United States filed a surge of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Aimed at recovering the costs of the opioid epidemic, this “affirmative litigation” was a novel action for most of them. Participation necessitated a tectonic shift in how they conceptualized their roles vis-à-vis the law. To understand how this occurred, we use a mixed-methods approa…
Territoriality and the Emergence of Norms During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Although social norms are critical for regulating behavior, the emergence of new norms is rarely studied in consequential real-world settings. Thus, the conditions under which norms arise in certain communities but not in others are not well understood. In this article, we propose territoriality as a factor that helps to explain the unequal emergence of norms. When individuals experience a strong sense of territoriality over the physical spaces t…
Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Denunciation (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Control (management (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)