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J Interpers Violence. 2010 May;25(5):848-62. doi: 10.1177/0886260509336962. Epub 2009 Jul 8.
Blame attribution is a valuable mechanism explaining decision making. However, present literature mainly employs blame attribution as a dependent variable. The shortcoming of this fact is that blame attribution offers a potentially valuable explanatory mechanism for decision making. The authors designed two studies to investigate blame attribution as a moderator of sentencing decisions in sexual orientation-based hate crimes. Study 1 showed that mock jurors punished perpetrators of hate crimes more severely than a control condition. Also, degree of victim blame influenced punitive decision making. In Study 2, mock jurors extended findings that perpetrators of hate crimes are more harshly punished than those of other types of crimes. Victim and perpetrator blame failed to moderate decision making in this more complex scenario. Results are discussed in relation to hate crimes definitions and attribution theory.
归因是解释决策的一种有价值的机制。然而，目前的文献主要将归因作为因变量来使用。这种做法的不足之处在于，归因提供了一个潜在的有价值的决策解释机制。作者设计了两项研究，以探讨归因在性取向仇恨犯罪的量刑决策中的调节作用。研究 1 表明，模拟陪审员对仇恨犯罪的加害者的惩罚比对照组更严厉。此外，受害者的责备程度影响了惩罚性决策。在研究 2 中，模拟陪审员的发现表明，仇恨犯罪的加害者比其他类型犯罪的加害者受到更严厉的惩罚。在这种更复杂的情况下，受害者和加害者的责备并不能调节决策。研究结果与仇恨犯罪的定义和归因理论有关。
