Reactions to Crime as a Hierarchy Regulating Strategy: The Moderating Role of Social Dominance Orientation |
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| Authors: | Eva G T Green Lotte Thomsen Jim Sidanius Christian Staerklé Polina Potanina |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Vidy Building, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;(2) Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA;(3) University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;(4) Department of African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA;(5) Department of Psychology, New York University, New York City, USA |
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| Abstract: | Across two studies, we demonstrated that support for group-based hierarchies differentially affects evaluation of ingroup
and outgroup criminal offenders and that this effect generalizes to overall evaluations of their respective groups. Drawing
on social dominance theory, our results show that differential judgments of national ingroup and immigrant outgroup offenders
reflect hierarchy regulating strategies. Study 1 (N = 94) revealed that egalitarians (low on SDO) were more lenient toward outgroup offenders and their ethnic group (Arab immigrants)
when compared to ingroup offenders and their national group (Swiss citizens). The opposite was true for social dominators
(high on SDO). Study 2 (N = 88) replicated the results of Study 1 and further demonstrated that the socio-economic status of the perpetrator did not
affect perpetrator group evaluations suggesting that the arbitrary sets of ethnicity or nationality, not education level and
employment status, were the important cues for hierarchy-regulating judgments of criminal offenders. |
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