@article{ref1,
title="Blame conformity: Leading eyewitness statements can influence attributions of blame for an accident",
journal="Applied cognitive psychology",
year="2013",
author="Thorley, Craig and Rushton-Woods, Jayne",
volume="27",
number="3",
pages="291-296",
abstract="The present experiment examined whether attributions of blame for an incident can be shifted between individuals as a result of a leading eyewitness statement. Participants watched a video of an accident involving two men and then read either a non-leading eyewitness statement that blamed no one for the accident or a leading eyewitness statement that blamed one of the two men for the accident. Participants' attributions of blame for the accident were then assessed either immediately or after a 1 week delay. Regardless of the time delay, just over one-third of participants who read a leading statement subsequently blamed the same person as the eyewitness. In contrast, less than 4% of participants who read a non-leading statement blamed one of the men. This research is the first to demonstrate blame conformity, where blame for an incident can be shifted between individuals as a result of a leading eyewitness statement. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0888-4080",
doi="10.1002/acp.2906",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.2906"
}