What I don’t know can hurt you: Collateral combat damage seems more acceptable when bystander victims are unidentified (IMAGE)

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What I don’t know can hurt you: Collateral combat damage seems more acceptable when bystander victims are unidentified

Caption

Percent of “Yes” responses to “Should the pilot fire?” depending on bystander identity, Study 1a. Error bars reflect 95% CIs. Asterisks denote Bonferroni corrected p-values compared with the unidentified bystander condition (*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001). More innocent and uninvolved bystanders see a reduction in firing compared to bystanders who were guilty (e.g., ISIS solider) or tied to ISIS (e.g., Extremist Muslim, civilian war profiteer). This pattern does not hold for the unidentified bystander condition, for which most (58.5%) participants said the pilot should fire.

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Danielson et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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