Supplementary materials for: A painful message: Testing the effects of suffering and understanding on punishment judgments

This experiment will use a contrastive vignette method to examine predictors of punishment attitudes in a U.S. sample. The understanding hypothesis predicts that the signal that the perpetrator understands why he has been punished will increase satisfaction with the punishment and reduce additional punishment recommendations, relative to the no understanding condition. The suffering hypothesis predicts that the induction of suffering alone will be sufficient to evoke satisfaction with the punishment and reduce additional punishment recommendations. We expect that indicators of punishment goal fulfillment will be greatest in the combined presence of suffering and understanding.

Aharoni et al. study data in both csv and SPSS format. See codebook for coding value/label assignments.

This is a printout of our survey with all conditions combined. Individual subjects would only see one set of conditions.

This is the SPSS syntax (i.e., analysis code) used in Aharoni et al.