@article{ref1,
title="Killing begets killing: evidence from a bug-killing paradigm that initial killing fuels subsequent killing",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2007",
author="Martens, Andy and Kosloff, Spee and Greenberg, Jeff and Landau, Mark J. and Schmader, Toni",
volume="33",
number="9",
pages="1251-1264",
abstract="Killing appears to perpetuate itself even in the absence of retaliation. This phenomenon may occur in part as a means to justify prior killing and so ease the threat of prior killing. In addition, this effect should arise particularly when a killer perceives similarity to the victims because similarity should exacerbate threat from killing. To examine these ideas, the authors developed a bug-killing paradigm in which they manipulated the degree of initial bug killing in a &quot;practice task&quot; to observe the effects on subsequent self-paced killing during a timed &quot;extermination task.&quot; In Studies 1 and 2, for participants reporting some similarity to bugs, inducing greater initial killing led to more subsequent self-paced killing. In Study 3, after greater initial killing, more subsequent self-paced killing led to more favorable affective change. Implications for understanding lethal human violence are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/0146167207303020",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167207303020"
}