A cleansing fire: Moral outrage alleviates guilt and buffers threats to one’s moral identity
| Autor: | Lucas A. Keefer, Zachary K. Rothschild |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Retributive justice
Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) Morality Ingroups and outgroups 050105 experimental psychology Wrongdoing Moral psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Social psychology Outrage media_common Moral disengagement |
| Zdroj: | Motivation and Emotion. 41:209-229 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6644 0146-7239 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11031-017-9601-2 |
| Popis: | Why do people express moral outrage? While this sentiment often stems from a perceived violation of some moral principle, we test the counter-intuitive possibility that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity. We tested this guilt-driven account of outrage in five studies examining outrage at corporate labor exploitation and environmental destruction. Study 1 showed that personal guilt uniquely predicted moral outrage at corporate harm-doing and support for retributive punishment. Ingroup (vs. outgroup) wrongdoing elicited outrage at corporations through increased guilt, while the opportunity to express outrage reduced guilt (Study 2) and restored perceived personal morality (Study 3). Study 4 tested whether effects were due merely to downward social comparison and Study 5 showed that guilt-driven outrage was attenuated by an affirmation of moral identity in an unrelated context. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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