Observer's reaction to the "innocent victim"¶
Lerner, & Simmons. (1966). Observer's reaction to the "innocent victim": Compassion or rejection?.
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- Lerner and Simmons's original experiment demonstrated this directly: observers who could vote to move a shock victim to a positive-reinforcement schedule rated the victim positively, while observers told the shocks would continue regardless derogated the same victim's character and intelligence
This sourceThe classic victim-derogation experiment, in which observers who expected a shock victim's suffering to continue and were powerless to stop it rejected and devalued her. The experiment in which observers powerless to stop a victim's continuing shocks rejected and devalued her.
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- Lerner and Simmons's original experiment demonstrated this directly: observers who could vote to move a shock victim to a positive-reinforcement schedule rated the victim positively, while observers told the shocks would continue regardless derogated the same victim's character and intelligence
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