Leniency for outgroup offenders: A strategic reaction to preserve the image and superiority of the ingroup?

It is a robust finding that the group membership of an offender affects lay people’s sentencing recommendations. Research in the domain of social psychology and retributive justice has brought forward two main explanations for this effect: The ingroup bias and the black sheep effect. The ingroup bia...

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Main Author: Braun, Judith
Contributors: Gollwitzer, Mario (Prof. Dr.) (Thesis advisor)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2014
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