Popular justice on bullies: Attributions of responsibility, anger, and ineffective social control as fuel for non-normative collective action

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Autor(a) principal: Campos,Miguel
Data de Publicação: 2017
Outros Autores: Marques,André G., Aguiar,Tiago, Cardoso,Sónia G., Pinto,Isabel R., Marques,José M.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: School bullying has seldom been analyzed through the perspective of society in general. However, severe collective reactions often emerge towards bullies when they attract public attention. In this paper, we analyze the process underlying these non-normative forms of collective action triggered by bullying. A survey was presented to 350 Portuguese participants following the release of a viral video depicting a bullying situation. Results showed that assignment of responsibility to the aggressor predicted agreement with popular justice, which was mediated by anger and moderated by perceived ineffectiveness of social control. Specifically, greater responsibility attributed to aggressors yielded greater anger towards them, which, in turn, triggered more agreement with popular justice. Moreover, this effect was stronger for participants who believed that formal social control mechanisms were ineffective. We discuss these results in light of their contribution for tackling bullying, as well as for the literature on deviance, social control and collective action.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Popular justice on bullies: Attributions of responsibility, anger, and ineffective social control as fuel for non-normative collective action
title Popular justice on bullies: Attributions of responsibility, anger, and ineffective social control as fuel for non-normative collective action
spellingShingle Popular justice on bullies: Attributions of responsibility, anger, and ineffective social control as fuel for non-normative collective action
Campos,Miguel
Bullying
Social control
Collective action
Popular justice
Reaction to deviance
title_short Popular justice on bullies: Attributions of responsibility, anger, and ineffective social control as fuel for non-normative collective action
title_full Popular justice on bullies: Attributions of responsibility, anger, and ineffective social control as fuel for non-normative collective action
title_fullStr Popular justice on bullies: Attributions of responsibility, anger, and ineffective social control as fuel for non-normative collective action
title_full_unstemmed Popular justice on bullies: Attributions of responsibility, anger, and ineffective social control as fuel for non-normative collective action
title_sort Popular justice on bullies: Attributions of responsibility, anger, and ineffective social control as fuel for non-normative collective action
author Campos,Miguel
author_facet Campos,Miguel
Marques,André G.
Aguiar,Tiago
Cardoso,Sónia G.
Pinto,Isabel R.
Marques,José M.
author_role author
author2 Marques,André G.
Aguiar,Tiago
Cardoso,Sónia G.
Pinto,Isabel R.
Marques,José M.
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Campos,Miguel
Marques,André G.
Aguiar,Tiago
Cardoso,Sónia G.
Pinto,Isabel R.
Marques,José M.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Bullying
Social control
Collective action
Popular justice
Reaction to deviance
topic Bullying
Social control
Collective action
Popular justice
Reaction to deviance
description School bullying has seldom been analyzed through the perspective of society in general. However, severe collective reactions often emerge towards bullies when they attract public attention. In this paper, we analyze the process underlying these non-normative forms of collective action triggered by bullying. A survey was presented to 350 Portuguese participants following the release of a viral video depicting a bullying situation. Results showed that assignment of responsibility to the aggressor predicted agreement with popular justice, which was mediated by anger and moderated by perceived ineffectiveness of social control. Specifically, greater responsibility attributed to aggressors yielded greater anger towards them, which, in turn, triggered more agreement with popular justice. Moreover, this effect was stronger for participants who believed that formal social control mechanisms were ineffective. We discuss these results in light of their contribution for tackling bullying, as well as for the literature on deviance, social control and collective action.
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