小题大做:从先前的不道德行为中去除道德意义

IF 1.8 3区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI:10.1002/bdm.2310
Chelsea Helion, Adrian Ward, Ian O'Shea, David Pizarro
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在他们生命中的某个时刻,大多数人都说过谎,故意伤害别人,或者自私地牺牲别人的利益。尽管知道自己的道德缺陷,个人往往能够保持他们是有道德的人的信念。这项研究探索了这种矛盾过程发生的一种机制:倾向于用具体或机械的术语来描述一个人过去的不道德行为,从而剥离了其道德含义。在五项研究中,我们记录了这一基本模式,并提供了证据,证明这一过程会影响对行为道德错误的评估。我们进一步证明了这一效应的延伸,例如,当道歉用机械的术语描述不道德的行为时,它被认为不那么真诚和不可原谅,可能是因为在道歉中包含低级或具体的语言无法传达一个人的行为在道德上是错误的信念。
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Making molehills out of mountains: Removing moral meaning from prior immoral actions

At some point in their lives, most people have told a lie, intentionally hurt someone else, or acted selfishly at the expense of another. Despite knowledge of their moral failings, individuals are often able to maintain the belief that they are moral people. This research explores one mechanism by which this paradoxical process occurs: the tendency to represent one's past immoral behaviors in concrete or mechanistic terms, thus stripping the action of its moral implications. Across five studies, we document this basic pattern and provide evidence that this process impacts evaluations of an act's moral wrongness. We further demonstrate an extension of this effect, such that when an apology describes an immoral behavior using mechanistic terms, it is viewed as less sincere and less forgivable, likely because including low-level or concrete language in an apology fails to communicate the belief that one's actions were morally wrong.

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期刊介绍: The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making is a multidisciplinary journal with a broad base of content and style. It publishes original empirical reports, critical review papers, theoretical analyses and methodological contributions. The Journal also features book, software and decision aiding technique reviews, abstracts of important articles published elsewhere and teaching suggestions. The objective of the Journal is to present and stimulate behavioral research on decision making and to provide a forum for the evaluation of complementary, contrasting and conflicting perspectives. These perspectives include psychology, management science, sociology, political science and economics. Studies of behavioral decision making in naturalistic and applied settings are encouraged.
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