Morally-relevant theory of mind mediates the relationship between group membership and moral judgments
| Autor: | Alexander P. D'Esterre, Jacquelyn Glidden, Melanie Killen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Group membership
05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Ingroups and outgroups Article 050105 experimental psychology Mental state Theory of mind Developmental and Educational Psychology Outgroup 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attribution Psychology Competence (human resources) Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cogn Dev |
| ISSN: | 0885-2014 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100976 |
| Popis: | Children rely on their understanding of others’ mental states to help them navigate complex social contexts involving moral judgments and group membership. This study examined the relationship between mental state understanding, group membership, and moral judgments. Children (4–10 years old, N = 120, MAge = 6.87 years, SDAge = 1.81), were interviewed and told about hypothetical peers who created advantages for their team that varied in the moral status of their intentions. Analyses revealed that morally-relevant Theory of Mind competence mediated the relations between group membership, attribution of intentions, and social exclusion when an advantage had both moral and intentional motives, but not when an advantage was a straightforward moral transgression. Morally-relevant Theory of Mind was predictive of person judgments and varied based on ingroup/outgroup status of the target. Future work should consider how children’s mental state understanding interacts with ingroup biases to affect outcomes in other contexts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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