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    "pk": 26357,
    "title": "Implicit measurement of motivated causal attribution",
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    "abstract": "Moral judgment often involves pinning causation for harm toa particular person. Since it reveals “who one sides with”, ex-pression of moral judgment can be a costly social act that peo-ple may be motivated to conceal. Here, we demonstrate thata simple, well-studied psycholinguistic task (implicit causal-ity) can be leveraged as a novel implicit measure of morallyrelevant causal attributions. Participants decided whether tocontinue sentences like “Amy killed Bob because...” with ei-ther the pronoun he or she. We found that (1) implicit causal-ity selections predicted explicit causal judgments, (2) select-ing the object (victim) for harm/force events (e.g., kill, rape)predicted endorsement of moral values previously linked tovictim-blame, and (3) higher hostile sexism predicted select-ing the female as the cause in male-on-female harm/force. Theimplicit causality task is a new measure of morally motivatedcausal attribution that may circumvent social desirability con-cerns.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "implicit cognition; causation; psycholinguistics;moral psychology; implicit causality; semantics"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20d9h3rx",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Laura",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Niemi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Harvard University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hartshorne",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tobias",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gerstenberg",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Liane",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Young",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Boston College",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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