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Murder most foul: Predictors of an affirmative response to an outrageous question

✍ Scribed by Gordon W. Russell; Ronald Baenninger

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 498 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0096-140X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1996)22:3<175::aid-ab2>3.0.co;2-m

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✦ Synopsis

Male and female students (N = 761) attending university in Canada and the U.S. were asked if they would personally kill someone they knew and thoroughly hated under conditions of anonymity. Among Canadian subjects, males, those who were not religious, foreign students and those scoring high on irritation or assaultive tendencies were most likely to endorse the "murder" item. Among U.S. subjects, only irritability was a significant predictor of the criterion item. The results were discussed in terms of their methodological implications.