Craig A. Harper

TL;DR: A large international community sample was recruited to complete measures of self-perceived risk of contracting COVID-19, fear of the virus, moral foundations, political orientation, and behavior change in response to the pandemic, and the only predictor of positive behavior change was fear of COVID -19, with no effect of politically relevant variables.

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the conceptualization and measurement of attitudes towards sexual offenders is provided, before the existing literature on the factors underlying such beliefs and the malleability of these attitudes are explored.

TL;DR: The authors examined 543 articles from 8 of the 10 most-read British national newspapers in terms of their representativeness of crime rates and their linguistic properties, and found that sexual crime articles comprised angrier and more emotionally negative tones than stories on all other groups.

TL;DR: This study compared two attitudinal interventions (first-person narrative vs. expert opinion) using a student sample and found that only the narrative intervention would lead to reductions in stigmatization and punitive attitudes about pedophiles at the implicit level.

TL;DR: In this article, the application of moral foundations theory was used to explore the roots of the current punitive consensus around sexual crime policy at the macro level, as well as individual variability in attitudes about sexual violence.