{"title":"Injustice Promotes Unethical Behavior Through Moral Disengagement","authors":"Yan Wang, Yichu Li, Hongfei Meng, Shuhong Kong","doi":"10.1080/01973533.2023.2275070","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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","PeriodicalId":48014,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Social Psychology","volume":"31 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Basic and Applied Social Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2023.2275070","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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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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.
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