Cognitive fcators

• not reality/twisted/ deny or rationalise behaviour
• Hostile attribution bias- think the worst

  attribution= observe action and infer meaning

  Negative infer = aggression
• Minimalisation reduce negative interpretation of behaviour

  this way they accept consequences and don't feel bad

  Robber- stealing has little effect on the persons life
• Moral reasoning

  Kohlberg- 10% of adults in post-convectional level, most at convectional level, justify behaviour, protect family etc.
• Children age 10- 20% stage 1 60% stage 2 - do understand morality to an extent
• Justye- emotionally ambiguous faces (of various intensity) to 55 anti-social violent offenders. more likely interpret anger as aggression- hostile attribution bias- mundane/ everyday realism
• Sex offenders justify- victim contributed. Denial of responsibility
• Gudjonsson or Sigurdsson- offender motivation questionnaire 38% don't consider consequence, 36% not get caught - pre-conventional stage
• More moral reasoning = less violent crime
• Moral thinking, moral principles are only one factor in moral behaviour and can be overridden by more practical factors- financial gain