Sensitive and tolerant raters differ in their magnitude estimates of extremely violent behaviors
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
6-1-2008
Abstract
A 2007 study indicated severity of violence of several behaviors can be rated consistently, such that an individual's average rating across the behaviors can serve as a measure of sensitivity to violence. However, violence-sensitive and violence-tolerant raters in that study gave similar high scale ratings of severity of violence for extremely violent behaviors such as murder and stabbing. In the present study an open-ended magnitude estimation response scale was used by 27 participants to examine impressions of the severity of violence of 38 behaviors. There was a positive correlation between estimates of severity for extreme physical violence and estimates for lower severity of violence. This result indicates that the earlier finding of apparent equivalence of sensitive and tolerant individuals did not signify agreement about extremely violent behaviors but was a ceiling effect arising from the closed-ended response scale used. Violence-sensitive and violence-tolerant individuals seem to have different attitudes toward all types of violence. © Perceptual and Motor Skills 2008.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Perceptual and Motor Skills
Volume
106
Issue
3
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Collyer, Charles E., and Jessie Melisi. "Sensitive and tolerant raters differ in their magnitude estimates of extremely violent behaviors." Perceptual and Motor Skills 106, 3 (2008): 759-762. doi: 10.2466/PMS.106.3.759-762.