Lay theories of delinquency

Paying for the crimes of their children: Public support of parental responsibility

“…Confirming Reuterman's gender difference finding, Furnham and Henderson (1983) also found that women in their study commonly explained delinquency as resulting from the juvenile's socialization in the home. This survey study was conducted in Britain and included 370 adults.…”

“…This was a relatively new area of research; therefore, theories for predictions of support were borrowed from earlier public opinion research related to delinquency. Based on the Reuterman (1978) and Furnham and Henderson (1983) finding that women were more likely than men to view delinquency problems as stemming from the home, it was predicted that women more than men would view parents as responsible. Age was predicted to have a negative linear relationship with agreeing that parents should be blamed and punished.…”

Implicit psychologists' estimates of attitude‐behaviour consistencies

“…Stated in terms of Wegner and Vallacher's conception of implicit psychology, 'psychological theory and research is an extension of concerns held by the average individual' (Wegner and Vallacher, 1977, cf. also Furnham andHenderson, 1983).…”

“…Stated in terms of Wegner and Vallacher's conception of implicit psychology, 'psychological theory and research is an extension of concerns held by the average individual' (Wegner and Vallacher, 1977, cf. also Furnham andHenderson, 1983).In a study allowing direct comparisons between implicit and explicit personality theories, Semin et al (1981) investigated whether naive judges are able to reproduce the scale structures of scientific personality inventories. Subjects were presented the scale labels of two widely used personality inventories and were then asked to categorize the complete item pool under these labels.…”

Lay theories of etiology and ?cure? for four types of paraphilia: Fetishism; pedophilia; sexual sadism; and voyeurism

“…Participants were presented with a 10-page questionnaire that was based on the format used by Furnham and Henderson (1983). The first page introduced the study and the nature of the task and also requested the following demographic information: sex, age, education, occupational status, marital status, number of siblings, whether participants had ever sought help from a psychologist, politics (the party that they have voted for most often in the past and anticipate voting for in the future), and degree of religiousness (indicated on a scale of 0 ϭ very to 9 ϭ not at all ).…”