When an injured group’s socio-economic status signals forgiveness expectancy in perpetrators

We investigated whether and when perpetrators might expect to be forgiven as a function of their own social dominance orientation and the injured group’s perceived socio-economic status. In a between-subjects design (N = 298), British participants imagined a realistic scenario in which they would offend members of either a low (Filipinos) or high (Chinese) socio-economic status group. Results revealed no significant differences between low and high socio-economic status conditions among participations with low SDO scores. In contrast, participants with high SDO scores expected the injured group in the low socio-economic status condition to be significantly more forgiving of them than the injured group in the high status condition. These results demonstrate the dynamic role that perceived group characteristics, such as status, and hierarchy-maintaining individual difference can play in shaping forgiveness expectancy among the perpetrator group

Developmental psychology · Expectancy theory · Forgiveness · Group (periodic table · Moderation · Clinical Psychology · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Psychology · Social Psychology