Empathy, Social Dominance Orientation, Mortality Salience, and Perceptions of a Criminal Defendant

In two studies, participants completed measures of trait empathy and social dominance orientation, read a summary of a hit and run trial, and provided reactions to the case. In Study 1, the three randomly assigned conditions included a prompt to empathize with the victims, the empathy prompt with a...

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Main Authors: Donna Crawley, Richard Suarez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-02-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016629185