Experimental support was found for the hypothesis that injury to a wrongdoer in the course of his misdeeds reduces punishment of the offender. Models were compared which attributed the effect: 1) directly to attraction toward the offender; 2) to effects on the judgment scale that are induced by attraction; and 3) to scale effects that are not mediated by attraction. The third model fit best.
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