id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_rkjwbay5prh7hlu36dshfppp5u Zachary K. Rothschild A dual-motive model of scapegoating: Displacing blame to reduce guilt or increase control 2012.0 16 .pdf application/pdf 15224 799 45 perceived personal moral value by minimizing feelings of guilt over one's responsibility for a negative Keywords: dual-motive model, scapegoating, guilt, personal control, climate change (Campbell & Sedikides, 1999; Kelly & Michela, 1980; Mezulis, individual level: maintaining one's perceived moral value by minimizing guilt over one's wrongdoing, and maintaining one's perceived personal control by explaining a negative outcome in one's are predicated on feeling personal control over a particular negative outcome, we expect that attributing blame to a viable scapegoat for that outcome will cause participants to report both reduced Indirect effects of threat condition on scapegoating through feelings of personal guilt and perceived whether the effects of value threat and control threat on scapegoating found in Study 1 are differentially moderated by affirmation inductions designed to restore perceptions of one's moral Holbrook, & Visser, 2000; Schuldt, Konrath, Schwarz, 2011). Among participants in the value threat condition, perceived personal control was indeed lower after exposure ./cache/work_rkjwbay5prh7hlu36dshfppp5u.pdf ./txt/work_rkjwbay5prh7hlu36dshfppp5u.txt