Punishers become more deviant

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Abstract

Five studies demonstrate that people who punish are more likely to indicate that they will behave in a deviant manner, relative to non-punishers. Study 1 showed that being the agent of norm enforcement in an economic game resulted in increased deviance intentions. Study 2 provided evidence that the effects on deviant behavior are unique to punishing by ruling out possibilities that merely condemning the transgression, or witnessing another person punish, would lead to deviance. Additionally, an increased sense of power did not mediate the relationship between punishment and deviance. Studies 3 and 4 showed that punishers reported increased moral self-regard, relative to non-punishers and those who condemned. In Study 5, participants who were randomly assigned to sanction a thief by assigning a fair amount of punishment reported increased deviance relative to participants who over-punished or did not punish.

Description

Type of resource	text
Form	electronic; electronic resource; remote
Extent	1 online resource.
Publication date	2011
Issuance	monographic
Language	English

Creators/Contributors

Associated with	Adams, Gabrielle Sierra
Associated with	Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
Primary advisor	Miller, Dale T
Primary advisor	Monin, Benoît, 1972-
Primary advisor	Mullen, Elizabeth
Thesis advisor	Miller, Dale T
Thesis advisor	Monin, Benoît, 1972-
Thesis advisor	Mullen, Elizabeth

Subjects

Genre	Theses

Bibliographic information

Statement of responsibility	Gabrielle Sierra Adams.
Note	Submitted to the Graduate School of Business.
Thesis	Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011.
Location	electronic resource

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© 2011 by Gabrielle Sierra Adams

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).

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