Attribution biases are the general rules of attributing cause to behavior. We studied multiple facets of this bizarre social phenomenon and I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across the “belief in a just world” fallacy proposed in an earlier lecture. You taught us that when we hold the belief that we do in fact live in a just world that we tend to believe that people get what they deserve, and will make causal attributions of others based on the consequences produced by their behavior and their character credibility. We also learned how to discern personal attribution from situational behavior, and what this article illustrates is the experiment was founded on the notion that people would attribute more causality to the victim of a rape if she were viewed as a more respectable person in the effort to compensate with the “un-justness” of the incident. This intrinsic dilemma frustrates me and I will rant in a few paragraphs.
The study was conducted by Cathaleene Jones and Elliot Aronson. Their hypothesis was a socially respec
When you look at the demographics of each victim it is crucial to note all the other factions affected by the crime. A married woman has a family and the divorcee probably has one too. Do they have more at stake; should we crack down harder on the perpetrator? Did the virgin lose her most precious virtue? Did he steal her innocence? We can’t simply attribute on one plane of thought. These frames of mindset are in danger of bigotry and I know I personally cannot claim that I only focus on one facet of a problem.
table person is seen as more at fault in a crime in which he was the victim. The put forth a case description of a rape attempt and assault in manipulated circumstances that included a virgin, a married woman, and a divorcee. The circumstances included the women’s sexual status and the effect the incident had on it. Then a survey was given to another sample in attempt to find a general estimate of how credible people view a virgin, a married woman, and a divorcee. The survey showed that a virgin received the most resp