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Laura Niemi^1,2, Joshua Hartshorne³, Tobias Gerstenberg⁴

¹Department of Psychology, Cornell University.

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|May 24, 2020

Summary

People who prioritize group-binding moral values, such as loyalty and purity, are more likely to blame victims for harmful events. This research links binding values to victim-blaming tendencies in causal attributions.

Keywords:

Causal attribution Implicit causality Moral psychology Morality Psycholinguistics Social cognition

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Psycholinguistics

Background:

Prior research links group-binding moral values (ingroup loyalty, authority, purity) to victim-blaming.
The concept of binding values emphasizes group cohesion over individual concerns.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if endorsing binding values predicts assigning blame to victims of harm.
To explore the relationship between moral values and the causal interpretation of harmful events.

Main Methods:

Utilized an implicit causality task where participants completed sentences like 'SUBJECT verbed OBJECT because…'.
Collected explicit judgments of causal responsibility and measured participants' moral values.
Employed two verb sets across two independent replications with a total of 1494 participants.

Main Results:

Higher endorsement of binding values correlated with attributing causality to the object (victim) in harmful events.
Binding values predicted explicit causal attributions towards victims.
Findings support previous work on victim-blaming in moral psychology.

Conclusions:

Moral values prioritizing the group over the individual reliably predict shifting causal responsibility to those affected by harm.
This suggests a psychological mechanism linking group-focused morality to victim-blaming.