Anticipated accountability suppresses willingness to harm out-groups

Evidence

These results are consistent with the findings of Mummendey et al. (1992), who showed that although individuals may actively seek to allocate benefits in a manner that advantages the in-group, they are disinclined to cause harm to the out-group. This result is especially likely when participants know they will be made to justify their behavior to those against whom they discriminated (Dobbs & Crano, 2001). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1403

Categorization

• XREF: Accountability as a mechanism suppressing out-group harm connects to institutional-design literatures the reader has engaged (law merchant, arbitration) where reputation and scrutiny discipline conduct. — connects to: Rejecting whole-group accountability is a way people avoid collective guilt — Michael T. Schmitt, Daniel A. Miller, Nyla R. Branscombe, and Jack W. Brehm, The Difficulty of Making Reparations…, 17
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1403