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Situational and personality determinants of a victim's identification with a tormentor.

Kerr, Norbert L., Gross, Albert C. (1978) Situational and personality determinants of a victim's identification with a tormentor. Journal of Research in Personality, 12 (4). pp. 450-468. ISSN 0092-6566. (doi:10.1016/0092-6566(78)90071-5) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:42553)

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Abstract

The effects of two situational (tormentor legitimacy and tormentor justification) and two personality (victim's belief in the just world and victim's Machiavellianism) factors on several reactions of a victim to his tormentor were explored. Greater conformity by victims to their tormentor's opinions occurred when the victims believed strongly in the just world and when the tormentor was well justified for his behavior; there was a greater conformity towards the tormentor in these conditions than towards a neutral nontormentor. The tormentor received less positive evaluations from the victim when he acquired his role illegitimately or when the victim was Machiavellian; when the tormentor acquired the role legitimately, he was liked no less than the nontormentor. The experimental variables did not affect behavioral imitation of the tormentor or the interpersonal distance maintained by the victim. The results failed to conform to any simple identification process. Several explanations for these results are explored and directions for additional research are discussed.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/0092-6566(78)90071-5
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: M.L. Barnoux
Date Deposited: 21 Aug 2014 11:48 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:16 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/42553 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Kerr, Norbert L..

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