Will Innocent Victims Be Blamed Less When Mimicked?
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_286How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Innocent victim; Victim blame; Embodied cognition; Mimicry; Threat to JWB; Identity similarity
- Abstract
In current study, we intended to, from the perspective of embodied cognition theory, explore the interactions of mimicry, identity similarity and the threat to just world belief (JWB) on the blame attitude of innocent victims. A completely random design of experiment with three factors: mimicry (mimicry vs. no mimicry) * identity similarity (high vs. low) * threat to JWB (high vs. low) was conducted on 160 college students. First, we found a significant interaction between mimicry and threat to JWB. Second, mimicry also significantly interact with identity similarity. Third, no statistically significant interactions were found among the three factors. Conclusion: innocent victims will be blamed less after mimicked when the event threats bystanders’ JWB and the identity between bystanders and victims differentiates.
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TY - CONF AU - Wenbo Lv AU - Yanxi Liu AU - Shuangshuang Cai AU - Shun Peng AU - Lei Xu AU - Jiwen Chen PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/30 TI - Will Innocent Victims Be Blamed Less When Mimicked? BT - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 2489 EP - 2496 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_286 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_286 ID - Lv2022 ER -