Out of sight out of mind: Psychological distance and opinion about the age of penal majority

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dc.contributor.authorCaldas, Ivete Furtado Ribeiro
dc.contributor.authorPaim, Igor de Moraes
dc.contributor.authorLeite, Karla Tereza Figueiredo
dc.contributor.authorde Mello Junior, Harold Dias
dc.contributor.authorBataglia, Patrícia Unger Raphael [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Raul Aragão [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorPereira, Antonio
dc.contributor.institutionPará State University
dc.contributor.institutionScience and Technology of Ceará
dc.contributor.institutionRio de Janeiro State University
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-29T14:32:10Z
dc.date.available2023-07-29T14:32:10Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-15
dc.description.abstractThe growth of urban violence in Brazil, as in other countries, has led citizens to demand more severe and punitive measures to solve the problem of juvenile crime. One motion submitted to the Brazilian parliament, for instance, proposes to reduce the age of penal majority (APM) from 18 to 16 years. Our hypothesis is that popular opinions about this proposal are largely constrained by construal levels and psychological distance. Accordingly, we expect that the knowledge and proximity to the circumstances associated with juvenile transgression will influence opinions about the proposal. To test this hypothesis, we evaluated how opinion against or for the proposal can be explained by psychological distance and moral development theory. We studied two samples, composed of people who do not have a deep experience with the subject (passersby in a public square (N = 77) and workers from a juvenile justice court (N = 157). After collecting socio-demographic information from the subjects and their answer to moral dilemmas, the data was subjected to a multivariate analysis by multimodal logistic regression for socio-demographic characteristics, Kohlberg moral stages, and opinion on the reduction of APM (agree, indifferent, and disagree) as dependent variables. Our findings suggest that 1) opinion about the APM depends on psychological distance and 2) socioeconomic variables may influence the average construal level of adolescent transgressors in the public’s perspective.en
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Morphology and Physiological Sciences Pará State University
dc.description.affiliationFederal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Ceará
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering Rio de Janeiro State University
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Education and Human Development Paulista State University
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Education Paulista State University
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering Institute of Technology Federal University of Pará
dc.description.affiliationUnespDepartment of Education and Human Development Paulista State University
dc.description.affiliationUnespDepartment of Education Paulista State University
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.763335
dc.identifier.citationFrontiers in Psychology, v. 13.
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2022.763335
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85139150407
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/249223
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Psychology
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectadolescence
dc.subjectmoral development
dc.subjectpsychological distance
dc.subjectpublic opinion
dc.subjectyouth justice
dc.titleOut of sight out of mind: Psychological distance and opinion about the age of penal majorityen
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