@article{ref1,
title="How victim sensitivity leads to uncooperative behavior via expectancies of injustice",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2015",
author="Maltese, Simona and Baumert, Anna and Schmitt, Manfred J. and MacLeod, Colin",
volume="6",
number="",
pages="e2059-e2059",
abstract="According to the Sensitivity-to-mean-intentions model, dispositional victim sensitivity involves a suspicious mindset 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. <br><br>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. <br><br>RESULTS confirmed that the readiness to expect unjust outcomes led to lower cooperation, compared to a control condition. These findings provide direct evidence that expectancy tendencies are implicated in elevated victim sensitivity and are of theoretical and practical relevance.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02059",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02059"
}