宠物接触对责任归因的影响：感知危害性的中介作用
The Impact of Pet Contact on Responsibility Attribution: The Mediating Role of Perceived Harmfulness
徐科朋 1颜杰 2陈佳莉 2薛宏 3白登选 4林爽 3张姝玥3
作者信息
- 1. 上海交通大学中国文化心理学研究院;琼台师范学院海南省儿童认知与行为发展重点实验室;广西师范大学教育学部心理学系;广西认知科学与心理健康重点实验室
- 2. 广西师范大学教育学部心理学系
- 3. 广西师范大学教育学部心理学系;广西认知科学与心理健康重点实验室
- 4. 河西学院智能信息研究所
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摘要
随着居民生活水平提升，宠物饲养已成为城市家庭中极为普遍的现象，而频发的宠物伤人事件受到社会大众高度关注，但个体在此类情境中的责任归因心理机制尚未得到系统性探究。本文通过四项递进式研究，考察宠物接触对责任归因的影响。结果显示，宠物接触显著降低个体对宠物方（宠物及其主人）的责任归因。中介机制分析进一步发现，这一效应通过降低个体对宠物的感知危害性实现：随着宠物接触增加，感知危害性的降低会减少个体对宠物方的责任归因，进而降低对被咬方的赔偿支持。微型元分析表明，在起因模糊情境下，宠物接触对责任归因的降低作用稳定且可重复。这些发现证实在人宠冲突情境中，宠物接触经验能够塑造归因判断，为公众舆论调解与引导提供了心理学依据。
Abstract
With the growing integration of pets into urban life, pet-related injuries have become more common. These incidents often involve ambiguous causes, leading to public disagreement over responsibility. Psychologically, how people assign blame in ambiguous situations is not well understood. We propose that pet contact influences responsibility attribution, hypothesizing that more pet contact would result in less blame being assigned to the pet party diad (the pet and its owner), especially when the cause of the incident is unclear, and that this effect would occur through reduced perceived pet harmfulness. This reduction in perceived harmfulness was also expected to subsequently decrease support for victim compensation, extending the attributional chain to behavioral intentions.Four studies were conducted with Chinese adults recruited online and locally. Study 1 (N = 156) was a cross-sectional survey measuring self-reported pet contact and responsibility attribution across two types of pet injury scenarios: clear and ambiguous. Study 2 (N = 189) experimentally manipulated pet contact via an imagination task. Study 3 (N = 210) used video priming. Study 4 (N = 156) employed real interactions in a real pet store versus a real store. Measures included pet contact frequency, perceived harmfulness, responsibility attribution to the pet party, and support for victim compensation. The analyses used ANOVA, linear mixed models, and mediation analysis, controlling for pet ownership, age, gender, and pet liking.Study 1 showed that more pet contact predicted less responsibility attribution to the pet party diad in ambiguous scenarios ( = 0.45, p = 0.010), but no effect in clear situations. Study 2 found that the pet contact group attributed less responsibility to pet party diad (p < 0.001) and perceived pets as less harmful, with mediation confirmed (95% CI [0.25, 0.04]). Study 3 replicated this finding and demonstrated a sequential mediation: from pet contact to lower perceived harmfulness, then to reduced responsibility, and finally to lower support for victim compensation (95% CI [0.44, 0.10]). Study 4, implemented in a real setting, again supported the sequential mediation (95% CI [0.60, 0.10]). A mini meta-analysis of Studies 24 showed a consistent medium effect (Cohens d = 0.44, 95% CI [0.81, 0.07]).This research shows that pet contact reduces responsibility attributions by lowering perceived harmfulness, and supports the application of attribution theory to humananimal interactions. The findings highlight how personal experience can systematically shape causal inference in ambiguous contexts. Practically, they help explain public disagreements over pet-related disputes and suggest that pet contact history may unconsciously bias judgments of blame and compensation. Future research should examine boundary conditions such as pet type and negative contact experiences.关键词
宠物接触/责任归因/感知危害性/赔偿支持Key words
pet contact/responsibility attribution/perceived harmfulness/support for victim compensation引用本文复制引用
徐科朋,颜杰,陈佳莉,薛宏,白登选,林爽,张姝玥.宠物接触对责任归因的影响：感知危害性的中介作用[EB/OL].(2026-05-18)[2026-05-21].https://chinaxiv.org/abs/202605.00135.学科分类
科学、科学研究
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