Injustice Promotes Unethical Behavior Through Moral Disengagement

IF 2.5 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Basic and Applied Social Psychology Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI:10.1080/01973533.2023.2275070

Yan Wang, Yichu Li, Hongfei Meng, Shuhong Kong

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Abstract

AbstractPeople are aversive to injustice. Yet how injustice experiences influence people’s ethic violation is understudied. Across three studies, we found that injustice increases unethical behavior and that moral disengagement is an underlying driver of this effect. By measuring (Study 1) and manipulating injustice (Study 2), two studies demonstrated that moral disengagement mediated the association between injustice and unethical behavior. Consistent with the moral disengagement mechanism, experimentally lowering participants’ moral disengagement eliminated the effect of injustice on unethical behavior (Study 3). These findings add to the literature on injustice as well as unethical behavior and have important implications. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe data described in this article are openly available in the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/p9wev/?view_only=0fa9ab72186e45969347eb82cf22b53a

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不公正通过道德脱离促进不道德行为

人们厌恶不公正。然而，不公正的经历如何影响人们的道德违规行为还没有得到充分的研究。在三项研究中，我们发现不公正会增加不道德行为，而道德脱离是这种效应的潜在驱动因素。通过测量(研究1)和操纵不公正(研究2)，两项研究表明，道德脱离介导了不公正与不道德行为之间的关联。与道德推脱机制一致的是，实验中降低参与者的道德推脱消除了不公正对不道德行为的影响(研究3)。这些发现增加了关于不公正和不道德行为的文献，具有重要意义。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。数据可用性声明本文中描述的数据在https://osf.io/p9wev/?view_only=0fa9ab72186e45969347eb82cf22b53a的开放科学框架中公开可用

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Basic and Applied Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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4.50

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) emphasizes the publication of outstanding research articles, but also considers literature reviews, criticism, and methodological or theoretical statements spanning the entire range of social psychological issues. The journal will publish basic work in areas of social psychology that can be applied to societal problems, as well as direct application of social psychology to such problems. The journal provides a venue for a broad range of specialty areas, including research on legal and political issues, environmental influences on behavior, organizations, aging, medical and health-related outcomes, sexuality, education and learning, the effects of mass media, gender issues, and population problems.