Wolfrom, Amber (2024) “He’s Evil and I Hate Him!”: Evilness Attributions and the Experience of Hate Feelings. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The experience of hate feelings tends to be multifaceted and morally ambiguous, with many individuals struggling to admit to feeling hate towards someone. For many years, the concepts of hate and evilness have been linked together, with previous research finding that people are quicker to hate someone if they perceive them as evil. With this study, we aimed to investigate further the role of evilness attributions in feeling hate towards different moral transgressors and if there existed an interaction between the type of transgressors and evilness attributions explaining hate feelings towards them. We expected that the type of transgression and evilness would predict hate and that they would interact. Participants (N=220) were exposed to 4 moral transgressions and asked to rate their hate feelings based on the Passionate Hate Scale (PHS), as well as whether the participant thought that the transgressor was born evil. Results show that the transgression condition predicted hate and evilness attribution did indeed explain hate feelings, but that no interaction was present between the two variables. These findings are relevant for understanding how evil and hate may present themselves in judging an individual. Keywords: hate, evilness, moral transgressions, morality, social psychology
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Martinez Moreno, C.A. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2024 07:16 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2024 07:16 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3938 |
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