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Integration of Certainty, Severity, and Celerity Information in Judged Deterrence Value: urther Evidence and Methodological Equivalence 1
Author(s) -
Howe Edmund S.,
Loftus Thomas C.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1996.tb01848.x
Subject(s) - certainty , psychology , social psychology , value (mathematics) , deterrence (psychology) , criminology , epistemology , statistics , philosophy , mathematics
The purposes of these studies were (a) to establish on a general basis whether 3 time‐honored manipulable components of punishment combine additively, or multi‐plicatively in determining the judged deterrence value of a sanction, and (b) to explore the equivalence in principle of two mutually exclusive experimental designs. Study 1 used a repeated measures design whereas main and interactive effects of certainty and severity were substantial and appeared to follow a multiplying rule, celerity effects were very small and local. Studies 2a and 3 used independent groups and established that the results of Study 1 were not merely an arbitrary product of the method. The discussion addresses the minimal effects of celerity, the interaction between certainty and severity, and the theoretical implications of choice of method.