TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Blame conformity: Leading eyewitness statements can influence attributions of blame for an accident
JO  - Applied cognitive psychology
A1  - Thorley, Craig
A1  - Rushton-Woods, Jayne
SP  - 291
EP  - 296
VL  - 27
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0888-4080
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.2906
ID  - ref1
ER  -