Hypocrisy moderates self-interest bias in moral character judgments
Hypocrisy moderates self-interest bias in moral character judgments
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Bocian, Konrad
Myślińska-Szarek, Katarzyna
Miazek, Katarzyna
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2024-08-29
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The Journal of Social Psychology
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1-16
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0022-4545
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2024-09-03
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Self-interest bias describes an observer’s tendency to judge moral transgression leniently when they benefit from it. However, what factors moderate the self-interest bias is an open empirical question. Here, we investigated to what extent hypocrisy moderates the self-interest bias. Preregistered Study 1a (N = 194) and replication in Study 1b (N = 193) demonstrated that observers’ interest impacts moral character judgments of hypocritical transgressors. This effect was explained by observers’ goal attainment due to transgression (Study 2, N = 713) and agreement to aid observers’ or ingroup interests (Study 3, N = 634). Importantly, transgressors’ hypocrisy moderated the impact of observers’ interests in moral character judgments (Studies 2 & 3). In summary, when judging hypocritical transgressors, peoples’ moral character judgments tend to be biased by their or their group’s interests. However, in comparison to non-hypocritical transgressors, this impact is less pronounced.
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attitudes
hypocrisy
moral character
self-interest bias
transgressions
hypocrisy
moral character
self-interest bias
transgressions
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