Reversing Authoritarian Punitiveness
The Impact of Verbal Conditioning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11325337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Griffitt (corresponding author), Luis Garcia (0000-0002-7597-8500), Luis T Garcia |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55 |
| Publication date | 1979-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-2725 • E-ISSN: 1939-8999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3033873 |
| OpenAlex | W2317933206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Half of each of two groups of initially high- or low-authoritarian subjects were exposed to verbal conditioning procedures in which the authoritarianism scores of high authoritarians were decreased, while those of low authoritarians were increased. The remaining halves were assigned to control groups in which no conditioning was utilized. All subjects then participated in a simulated jury task in which guilt, sentencing, and parole recommendations were made for either positively or negatively characterized defendants. A significant (p < .05) three-way interaction indicated that the conditioning procedure was effective in reversing the usual patterns of authoritarian bias. Conditioned low authoritarians' sentence recommendations were biased against negatively characterized defendants while those of conditioned high authoritarians showed no bias as a function of defendant character. In the control conditions the usual pattern of bias among high but not low authoritarians was replicated. The findings were interpreted as mediated by social approval processes. One of the aims discussed in The Authoritarian Personality (Adorno et al., 1950) was to develop procedures by which to change authoritarian characteristics
Authoritarianism · Conditioning · Jury · Political science · Politics · Reversing · Sentence · Statistics · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Jury Decision Making Processes · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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The defendant's dilemma
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An Introduction to Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2019 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |