Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

Will Innocent Victims Be Blamed Less When Mimicked?

Authors
Wenbo Lv1, Yanxi Liu1, Shuangshuang Cai1, Shun Peng1, Lei Xu1, Jiwen Chen1, *
1Department of Psychology, Jianghan University, 8 Sanjiaohu Road, Wuhan, 430060, Hubei, China
*Corresponding author. Email: chenjiwen@jhun.edu.cn
Corresponding Author
Jiwen Chen
Available Online 30 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_286How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Innocent victim; Victim blame; Embodied cognition; Mimicry; Threat to JWB; Identity similarity
Abstract

In current study, we intended to, from the perspective of embodied cognition theory, explore the interactions of mimicry, identity similarity and the threat to just world belief (JWB) on the blame attitude of innocent victims. A completely random design of experiment with three factors: mimicry (mimicry vs. no mimicry) * identity similarity (high vs. low) * threat to JWB (high vs. low) was conducted on 160 college students. First, we found a significant interaction between mimicry and threat to JWB. Second, mimicry also significantly interact with identity similarity. Third, no statistically significant interactions were found among the three factors. Conclusion: innocent victims will be blamed less after mimicked when the event threats bystanders’ JWB and the identity between bystanders and victims differentiates.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_286
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_286How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Wenbo Lv
AU  - Yanxi Liu
AU  - Shuangshuang Cai
AU  - Shun Peng
AU  - Lei Xu
AU  - Jiwen Chen
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Will Innocent Victims Be Blamed Less When Mimicked?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_286
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