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DOI	10.1007/s11211-020-00352-x
	Is It All About Retribution? The Flexibility of Punishment Goals
	Twardawski, Mathias 1,2; Tang, Karen T. Y.3,4; Hilbig, Benjamin E.2
通讯作者	Twardawski, Mathias
来源期刊	SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH
ISSN	0885-7466
EISSN	1573-6725
出版年	2020
卷号	33 期号:2 页码:195-218
英文摘要	Current literature suggests that laypeople's punishment is primarily driven by retributive reasons (i.e., to give offender their just deserts) rather than utilitarian purposes such as special prevention (i.e., to prevent recidivism of the offender) or general prevention (i.e., to prevent the imitation of the crime by others). One explanation for this may be that individuals tend to focus on salient cues while ignoring others when making a decision and critically, generally pay relatively little attention to secondary or long-term effects of their decision-making. This suggests that people's punishment goals may be subject to the information salient about the crime situation. Specifically, individuals may only pursue utilitarian goals with their punishment, if aspects related to such long-term consequences of punishment are salient (such as information about the offender or the broad circumstances surrounding the crime). To examine this, we manipulated the salience of different aspects in a scenario describing a crime. In two preregistered experiments, participants were asked to choose from (Experiment 1, N = 291) or rate the appropriateness of (Experiment 2, N = 366) different reactions to the crime; these reactions were pretested for the degree to which they served each of the punishment goals: retribution, special prevention, and general prevention. As hypothesized, we found that participants' punishment goals were associated with the salience of specific aspects of the scenario describing the crime situation. This extends on research suggesting that laypeople's punishment goals are malleable and may depend on the research design employed by a particular study.
英文关键词	Punishment goals Retribution Utilitarianism Information salience
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Germany ; Canada
开放获取类型	hybrid, Green Published
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000534240900002
WOS关键词	JUDGMENT ; JUSTICE ; UTILITY ; NEED
WOS类目	Psychology, Social ; Sociology
WOS研究方向	Psychology ; Sociology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/318713
作者单位	1.Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munchen, Munich, Germany; 2.Univ Koblenz Landau, Landau, Germany; 3.Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, NS, Canada; 4.Univ Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Twardawski, Mathias,Tang, Karen T. Y.,Hilbig, Benjamin E.. Is It All About Retribution? The Flexibility of Punishment Goals[J],2020,33(2):195-218.
APA	Twardawski, Mathias,Tang, Karen T. Y.,&Hilbig, Benjamin E..(2020).Is It All About Retribution? The Flexibility of Punishment Goals.SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH,33(2),195-218.
MLA	Twardawski, Mathias,et al."Is It All About Retribution? The Flexibility of Punishment Goals".SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH 33.2(2020):195-218.