Integrity and Moral Flexibility

IF 1.2 4区 心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
W. Hart, Charlotte K. Cease, Joshua T. Lambert, D. Witt
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Abstract: People with high integrity should stubbornly insist on maintaining their moral stances regardless of how their stances will make them appear. However, we examined whether people who claim to be high in integrity will express different moral stances to appear high in integrity. Participants ( N = 433) self-reported their integrity and then read and responded to hypothetical moral dilemmas that introduced tension between utilitarian and deontological moral principles. Participants reported their willingness to choose the utilitarian (vs. deontological) option in each dilemma under conditions in which choosing the utilitarian option signaled high integrity (utilitarian-signals-high-integrity condition) or choosing the deontological option signaled high integrity (deontological-signals-high-integrity condition). Generally, participants reported greater willingness to choose the utilitarian (vs. deontological) option in the utilitarian-signals-high-integrity (vs. deontological-signals-high-integrity) condition, but this effect was greater amongst people higher in self-proclaimed integrity. Additional analyses produced similar effects after accounting for participant sex, other moral personality traits, and experimenter demand. Broadly, the findings support the possibility that self-proclaimed integrity may be partly based on a self-presentation process.
诚信与道德灵活性
摘要:品德高尚的人,无论品行如何,都要顽强地坚持维护自己的道德立场。然而,我们研究了那些声称自己正直的人是否会表现出不同的道德立场来表现出正直。参与者(N = 433)自我报告他们的诚信,然后阅读并回应假设的道德困境,这些困境引入了功利主义和义务论道德原则之间的紧张关系。参与者报告了他们在选择功利主义选项表示高完整性(功利-信号-高完整性条件)或选择义务论选项表示高完整性(义务-信号-高完整性条件)的情况下,在每个困境中选择功利主义(与义务论)选项的意愿。一般来说,在功利-信号-高诚信(相对于道义-信号-高诚信)的情况下,参与者更愿意选择功利(相对于道义-信号-高诚信)的选项,但这种影响在自我宣称的诚信较高的人群中更大。在考虑了参与者的性别、其他道德人格特征和实验者的需求后,进一步的分析也产生了类似的效果。总的来说,研究结果支持了一种可能性,即自称正直的人可能在一定程度上是基于自我表现的过程。
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Journal of Individual Differences
Journal of Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
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期刊介绍: Researchers, teachers, and students interested in all areas of individual differences (e.g., gender, temperament, personality, intelligence) and their assessment in human and animal research will find the Journal of Individual Differences useful. The Journal of Individual Differences publishes manuscripts dealing with individual differences in behavior, emotion, cognition, and their developmental aspects. This includes human as well as animal research. The Journal of Individual Differences is conceptualized to bring together researchers working in different areas ranging from, for example, molecular genetics to theories of complex behavior.
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