HSRP-474

Judging one's own norm-breaker more harshly than an outsider, the "black sheep effect", holds only in part.

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1. Header

Number: HSRP-474
Category: Natural Law
Grade: WORKING
Status: ACTIVE
Entry form: Full
First entered: Not recorded — added to the register in supplement 027
Last revised: 2026-10-13
Register entry: https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-474

2. The claim, in full

Judging one's own norm-breaker more harshly than an outsider, the "black sheep effect", holds only in part.

Cited on: /the-hive-mind, US AND THEM › The member who breaks ranks. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W1c-9.

3. What it rests on

The laboratory is less clear-cut. Early studies found people judging a member who breaks a shared norm more harshly than an outsider who does the same, the "black sheep effect" of Marques and colleagues [SRC-839]. Six recent experiments found no average difference, and three more found it only in part, mainly when people were comparing their own group with another [SRC-840] [SRC-841].

Source: none linked in the register

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

No source is linked to this observation in the register.

5. Counter-evidence

No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.

6. Why this grade

general CONTESTED; conditional WORKING

The register defines WORKING as: A hypothesis or projection consistent with the evidence so far, but not yet confirmable.

7. Correction history

2026-10-13: BATCH 2 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from HOW A HIVE DEFENDS ITSELF, HOW A HIVE MOVES AS ONE BODY or US AND THEM — wording unchanged. The moved spans still carry the page's own reference numbers in brackets; converting them to SRC numbers is held for a pass of its own.

8. Related observations

HSRP-473 · WORKING · "Heretic", "apostate" and "traitor" name someone once inside; across faiths and states the texts code the breach as a broken promise and rank the leaver below the one who never joined.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-475 · WORKING · Psychology supplies the readiness to rank the leaver; offices supplied the penalty.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-476 · PROBABLE · People pressed to agree criticize a lone dissenter in public but not in private, and onlookers read it as sincere.
Relation: not recorded

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

The Programmable Hive Mind
“Judging one's own norm-breaker more harshly than an outsider, the "black sheep effect", holds only in part — general CONTESTED; conditional WORKING”

10. Open questions

Not yet recorded for this observation.

11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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