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ArticleSocial cognition2023

Asymmetric Causal Attributions to Environmental Influences for Prosocial Versus Antisocial Behavior.

Matthew S Lebowitz, Kathryn Tabb, Paul S Appelbaum

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Article in Social cognition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Matthew S LebowitzDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University; NY State Psychiatric Institute 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 122, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Kathryn TabbPhilosophy Program, Bard College, P.O. Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA.
Paul S AppelbaumDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University; NY State Psychiatric Institute 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 122, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Funding

Center for Research on Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral GeneticsRM1HG007257 · NHGRI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI APPELBAUM, PAUL STUART · 2018 to 2021
$4.4M
UNDERSTANDING IMPLICATIONS OF GENETIC ATTRIBUTIONS FOR ADDICTIONR00HG010084 · NHGRI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI LEBOWITZ, MATTHEW · 2020 to 2022
$747k
NHGRI NIH HHS R00 HG010084NHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG007257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several recent studies have explored how people may favor different explanations for others' behavior depending on the moral or evaluative valence of the behavior in question. This research tested whether people would be less willing to believe that a person's environment played a role in causing her to exhibit antisocial (as compared to prosocial) behavior. In three experiments, participants read a description of a person engaging in either antisocial or prosocial behavior. Participants were less willing to endorse environmental causes of antisocial (versus prosocial) behavior when the environmental influence in question was witnessing others behaving similarly, either during childhood (Experiment 1) or recently (Experiment 2), or being directly encouraged by others to engage in the behavior described (Experiment 3). These results could be relevant to understanding why people resist attributing wrongdoing to causes outside of individual control in some cases.

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Causal AttributionMotivated ReasoningSocial Cognition

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PMID37701647
PMCPMC10497225

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