Abstract

CONTRERAS, Karol  and  URUENA, Harold. Attributions of guilt from witness status and intentionality. Suma Psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.20, n.2, pp.231-240. ISSN 0121-4381.  https://doi.org/10.14349/sumapsi2013.1239.

The effect of the social status of the witnesses and the intent of the person, on the powers of guilt made by individuals were evaluated in this research. 178 college students participated and 4 stories that describe an event of fraud in a learning environment were used, varying the suspect's intentionality (intentional -not intentional) and social status of the witness (high -low). The results showed that there is an effect of social status and intentionality attributions of guilt. Results are interpreted in light of previous studies on attribution of blame in order to incorporate new elements as prior beliefs of the participants and accompanying information and highlight the status of witnesses to guide future research.

Keywords : blame attribution; social perception; intentionality; social status; witnesses.

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