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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0236764
	Slippery scales: Cost prompts, but not benefit prompts, modulate sentencing recommendations in laypeople
	Aharoni, Eyal; Kleider-Offutt, Heather M.; Brosnan, Sarah F.; Fernandes, Sharlene
通讯作者	Aharoni, E
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2020
卷号	15 期号:7
英文摘要	Do people punish more than they would if the decision costs were more transparent? In two Internet-based vignette experiments, we tested whether juvenile sentencing recommendations among U.S. adults are responsive to variation in the salience of the taxpayer costs and public safety benefits of incarceration. Using a 2 Cost (present vs. absent) x 2 Benefit (present vs. absent) factorial design, Experiment 1 (N = 234) found that exposure to information about the direct costs of incarcerating the juvenile offender reduced sentencing recommendations by about 28%, but exposure to the public safety benefits had no effect on sentences. Experiment 2 (N = 301) manipulated cost-benefit salience by asking participants to generate their own list of costs of incarceration, benefits of incarceration, or an affectively neutral, unrelated word list. Results revealed a similar selective effect whereby sentencing recommendations were reduced in the cost condition relative to the benefits and control conditions, but sentences in the benefit condition did not differ from the control. This combined pattern suggests that laypeople selectively neglect to factor cost considerations into these judgments, thereby inflating their support for punishment, unless those costs are made salient. These findings contribute to the debate on transparency in sentencing.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000569367100044
WOS关键词	OPPORTUNITY COSTS ; PUNISHMENT ; MOTIVES ; AVAILABILITY ; RETRIBUTION ; DETERRENCE ; PSYCHOLOGY ; QUALITY ; DESERTS ; JUSTICE
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/326297
作者单位	[Aharoni, Eyal; Kleider-Offutt, Heather M.; Brosnan, Sarah F.; Fernandes, Sharlene] Georgia State Univ, Dept Psychol, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA; [Aharoni, Eyal] Georgia State Univ, Dept Philosophy, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA; [Aharoni, Eyal; Kleider-Offutt, Heather M.; Brosnan, Sarah F.] Georgia State Univ, Neurosci Inst, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA; [Brosnan, Sarah F.] Ctr Behav Neurosci, Atlanta, GA USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Aharoni, Eyal,Kleider-Offutt, Heather M.,Brosnan, Sarah F.,et al. Slippery scales: Cost prompts, but not benefit prompts, modulate sentencing recommendations in laypeople[J],2020,15(7).
APA	Aharoni, Eyal,Kleider-Offutt, Heather M.,Brosnan, Sarah F.,&Fernandes, Sharlene.(2020).Slippery scales: Cost prompts, but not benefit prompts, modulate sentencing recommendations in laypeople.PLOS ONE,15(7).
MLA	Aharoni, Eyal,et al."Slippery scales: Cost prompts, but not benefit prompts, modulate sentencing recommendations in laypeople".PLOS ONE 15.7(2020).