Ramadhar Singh

TL;DR: This article explored determinants of punitive character attributions to norm violators and found that societal threat activates a prosecutorial mindset identifiable by a correlated cluster of attributions, emotions, punishment goals and punitiveness.

TL;DR: The results support the similarity-dissimilarity asymmetry hypothesis that predicts dissimilarity-repulsion to be stronger than similarity-attraction, but reject the attraction hypothesis that dissimilarities and similarity produce equal and opposite effects on social attraction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the similarity-attraction hypothesis and Rosenbaum's dissimilarity-repulsion hypothesis with 7-, 11-, 15-, and 21-year-olds in Singapore, and found that the repulsion effect emerged because the younger groups assumed a high level of attitudinal similarity in the control condition of no-attitude information and because they inaccurately perceived the manipulated similarity of attitudes in the experimental conditions.

TL;DR: Judgments of intellectual and social attractiveness of a target were taken from a pair of moderate and extreme intellectual or social traits and mechanisms postulated by both the hypotheses co-exist but they are detectable by only the operationalization employed in the two research paradigms.

TL;DR: In this article, the similarity-attraction hypothesis was tested in a main within-subjects experiment and the effect of similar and dissimilar attitudes was found to be dependent upon the level of similarity of attitudes assumed by the subjects in the no-attitude information control condition.