Callan, Mitchell J and Ferguson, Heather J and Bindemann, Markus (2013) Eye movements to audiovisual scenes reveal expectations of a just world. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142 (1). pp. 34-40. DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028261
Callan, Mitchell J and Ferguson, Heather J and Bindemann, Markus (2013) Eye movements to audiovisual scenes reveal expectations of a just world. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142 (1). pp. 34-40. DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028261
Callan, Mitchell J and Ferguson, Heather J and Bindemann, Markus (2013) Eye movements to audiovisual scenes reveal expectations of a just world. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142 (1). pp. 34-40. DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028261
Abstract
When confronted with bad things happening to good people, observers often engage reactive strategies, such as victim derogation, to maintain a belief in a just world. Although such reasoning is usually made retrospectively, we investigated the extent to which knowledge of another person's good or bad behavior can also bias people's online expectations for subsequent good or bad outcomes. Using a fully crossed design, participants listened to auditory scenarios that varied in terms of whether the characters engaged in morally good or bad behavior while their eye movements were tracked around concurrent visual scenes depicting good and bad outcomes. We found that the good (bad) behavior of the characters influenced gaze preferences for good (bad) outcomes just prior to the actual outcomes being revealed. These findings suggest that beliefs about a person's moral worth encourage observers to foresee a preferred deserved outcome as the event unfolds. We include evidence to show that this effect cannot be explained in terms of affective priming or matching strategies. © 2012 American Psychological Association.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | belief in a just world; visual world paradigm; eye movements; just-world schema; moral behavior |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2013 10:59 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 19:43 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/5691 |