Slippery scales: Cost prompts, but not benefit prompts, modulate sentencing recommendations in laypeople.

Do people punish more than they would if the decision costs were more transparent? In two Internet-based vignette experiments, we tested whether juvenile sentencing recommendations among U.S. adults are responsive to variation in the salience of the taxpayer costs and public safety benefits of incar...

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Main Authors: Eyal Aharoni, Heather M Kleider-Offutt, Sarah F Brosnan, Sharlene Fernandes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236764