Original paper

Demons with guns: How belief in pure evil relates to Attributional judgments for gun violence perpetrators

Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 809 - 818
Published: Feb 4, 2021
Abstract
Summary People who report greater belief in pure evil (BPE; the tendency to attribute harmdoing to dispositionally sadistic perpetrators) generally punish criminal perpetrators more regardless of mitigating circumstances (e.g., having a brain tumor). What attributional/cognitive processes underlie such punishment? A national sample (final N = 302) read an alleged USA Today article about a mall shooting. We manipulated whether the shooter...
Paper Details
Title
Demons with guns: How belief in pure evil relates to Attributional judgments for gun violence perpetrators
Published Date
Feb 4, 2021
Volume
35
Issue
3
Pages
809 - 818
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