TY - JOUR
T1 - When It’s Bad to Be Lucky
T2 - Observers’ Judgments of Fortuitous Victims
AU - Wrede, Olof
AU - Mac Giolla, Erik
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We framed crime victims as lucky, through downward counterfactual comparisons, and tested this “luck framing” influence on observers’ judgments of the victims. Victims framed as lucky and aware (Experiment 1) or unaware (Experiment 3) of their luck were rated as in need of less social support than victims who were not framed as lucky. This luck framing effect generalized to victim compensation: lucky aware victims were rated as deserving of less compensation compared to unlucky victims (Experiment 2). In contrast, luck framing of victims had little influence on observers’ judgments of the severity of the sentence a perpetrator should receive (Experiment 4). Taken together, for crime victims it can be bad to be thought of as lucky.
AB - We framed crime victims as lucky, through downward counterfactual comparisons, and tested this “luck framing” influence on observers’ judgments of the victims. Victims framed as lucky and aware (Experiment 1) or unaware (Experiment 3) of their luck were rated as in need of less social support than victims who were not framed as lucky. This luck framing effect generalized to victim compensation: lucky aware victims were rated as deserving of less compensation compared to unlucky victims (Experiment 2). In contrast, luck framing of victims had little influence on observers’ judgments of the severity of the sentence a perpetrator should receive (Experiment 4). Taken together, for crime victims it can be bad to be thought of as lucky.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85099472712
U2 - 10.1080/01973533.2020.1863797
DO - 10.1080/01973533.2020.1863797
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099472712
SN - 0197-3533
VL - 43
SP - 110
EP - 119
JO - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
JF - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
IS - 2
ER -
