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How Victim Sensitivity leads to Uncooperative Behavior via Expectancies of Injustice

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2016
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Title
How Victim Sensitivity leads to Uncooperative Behavior via Expectancies of Injustice
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02059
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Authors

Simona Maltese, Anna Baumert, Manfred J. Schmitt, Colin MacLeod

Abstract

According to the Sensitivity-to-mean-intentions model, dispositional victim sensitivity involves a suspicious mindset that is activated by situational cues and guides subsequent information processing and behavior like a schema. Study 1 tested whether victim-sensitive persons are more prone to form expectancies of injustice in ambiguous situations and whether these expectancies mediate the relationship between victim sensitivity and cooperation behavior in a trust game. Results show an indirect effect of victim sensitivity on cooperation after unfair treatment (vs. control condition), mediated by expectancies of injustice. In Study 2 we directly manipulated the tendency to form expectancies of injustice in ambiguous situations to test for causality. Results confirmed that the readiness to expect unjust outcomes led to lower cooperation, compared to a control condition. These findings provide direct evidence that expectancy tendencies are implicated in elevated victim sensitivity and are of theoretical and practical relevance.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 38 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 13%
Researcher 4 11%
Student > Master 2 5%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 7 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 22 58%
Social Sciences 3 8%
Computer Science 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 26%
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#6,904,950
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#9,932
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#112,350
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#193
of 445 outputs
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