How victim sensitivity leads to uncooperative behavior via expectancies of injustice

How victim sensitivity leads to uncooperative behavior via expectancies of injustice

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According to the Sensitivity-to-mean-intentions (SeMI) model, dispositional victim sensitivity involves a suspicious mindset Soaks that is activated by situational cues and guides subsequent information processing and behavior like a schema.Study 1 tested whether victim-sensitive persons are more prone to form expectancies of injustice in ambiguous situations and whether these expectancies mediate the relationship between victim sensitivity and cooperation behavior in a trust game.Results show an indirect effect of victim sensitivity on cooperation after unfair treatment (vs control condition), mediated by expectancies of injustice.In Study 2 we directly manipulated the tendency to form expectancies of injustice in ambiguous situations to test for causality.Results confirmed that the readiness to expect unjust outcomes led to lower cooperation, compared to a control condition.

These findings provide direct evidence that Animal Patch expectancy tendencies are implicated in elevated victim sensitivity and are of theoretical and practical relevance.