Download This PaperBlaming the Victim and Blaming the Culprit
Think (Summer 2005)
4 Pages Posted: 7 Dec 2018 Last revised: 22 Feb 2021
Date Written: November 13, 2018
Abstract
Psychologists and common sense recognize blaminQ the victim as a cognitive error (failacy) that manyof us use fo support the just-world hypothesis - the view that life is basbally fair. ln this article Richard Double compares a related phenomenon, blaming the culprit. When we commit the fallacy of blaming the culpit we mistakenly conclude that judging a culprit to deserue blame for an action exonerates everyone else from blame for that action. Double provides several examples of the fallacy.
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Double, Richard, Blaming the Victim and Blaming the Culprit (November 13, 2018). Think (Summer 2005), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3283930
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