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Anger Damns the Innocent

Published:2021-07-28 Issue:8 Volume:32 Page:1214-1226
ISSN:0956-7976
Container-title:Psychological Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Psychol Sci

Author:

DeCelles Katherine A.¹,Adams Gabrielle S.²^ORCID,Howe Holly S.³,John Leslie K.⁴

Affiliation:

1. Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Area, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

2. Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia

3. Marketing Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

4. Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Abstract

False accusations of wrongdoing are common and can have grave consequences. In six studies, we document a worrisome paradox in perceivers’ subjective judgments of a suspect’s guilt. Specifically, we found that people (including online panelists, n = 4,983, and working professionals such as fraud investigators and auditors, n = 136) use suspects’ angry responses to accusations as cues of guilt. However, we found that such anger is an invalid cue of guilt and is instead a valid cue of innocence; accused individuals (university students, n = 230) and online panelists ( n = 401) were angrier when they are falsely relative to accurately accused. Moreover, we found that individuals who remain silent are perceived to be at least as guilty as those who angrily deny an accusation.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797621994770

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