Outcome Severity and Judgments of “Responsibility”: A Meta‐Analytic Review

By J. Robbennolt. 2000

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Assessing tourists' cognitive, emotional and behavioural reactions to an unethical destination incident (2016, background): “The meta-analysis of the relationship between severity and responsibility by Robbennolt (2000) may help to add further clarity to understanding the inter-relationships between these two cognitive dimensions.”
The Role of Severity in Consumer Attributions of Blame (2005, background): “The defensive attribution hypothesis has been examined quite extensively in the psychology literature and two meta-analyses have found a significant positive relationship between the severity of nega- tive outcomes on measures of responsibility and blame (Robbennolt, 2000; Burger, 1981).”
Differences in consumer attributions of blame between men and women: The role of perceived vulnerability and empathic concern (2004, background): “This raises the question: Why blame the perpetrator rather than the victim, because blaming either could achieve the result of making the event appear more avoidable to one’s self? The answer to this question may relate to the issue of personal/situational similarity, which is identified as an impor”
On the Robustness of Outcome Bias: No Constraint by Prior Culpability (2004, methodology): “A recent meta-analysis examined 111 tests of the outcome severity effect across 75 studies (Robbennolt,2000).”