Unmasking Moral Hypocrisy: How Preschoolers Perceive and Judge Moral Hypocrites

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dc.abstract.enMany previous studies indicate that children are highly sensitive to the immoral behavior of others, preferring prosocial over antisocial characters. Accordingly, children avoid transgressors from a very early age. A special kind of transgressor is the moral hypocrite, who not only acts immorally but also acts in contrast to what they preach. There are very few studies establishing whether children recognize moral hypocrisy and if it impacts their moral judgment. We ran three studies with preschoolers aged 4 to 6 years on whether children recognize moral hypocrisy and how children assess moral hypocrisy. In Studies 2 and 3, we also tested false-signaling theory as an explanation of the more negative assessments of moral hypocrites. In Study 1 (N = 133), we showed that children indeed assess moral hypocrites more negatively than nonhypocritical moral transgressors. In Study 2 (N = 115), we initially demonstrated that the assessment of moral hypocrites results from their inconsistency between words and deeds. Study 3 (N = 159) replicated the results of Studies 1 and 2 and, by excluding an alternative explanation, explained that moral hypocrites are perceived as less moral and liked less due to the false signals that they send.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Sopocie
dc.contributor.authorMyślińska-Szarek, Katarzyna
dc.contributor.authorBaryła, Wiesław
dc.date.access2024-10-16
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-13T10:26:34Z
dc.date.available2024-11-13T10:26:34Z
dc.date.created2024-09-27
dc.date.issued2024-10-16
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dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/desc.13580
dc.identifier.eissn1467-7687
dc.identifier.issn1363-755X
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1093
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.13580
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
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dc.subject.enfalse-signaling
dc.subject.enmoral hypocrisy
dc.subject.enmoral judgments
dc.subject.enpreschoolers
dc.swps.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titleUnmasking Moral Hypocrisy: How Preschoolers Perceive and Judge Moral Hypocrites
dc.title.journalDevelopmental Science
dc.typeJournalArticle
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