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Judging near and distant virtue and vice
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We propose that people judge immoral acts as more offensive and moral acts as more virtuous when the acts are psychologically distant than near. This is because people construe more distant situations in terms of moral principles, rather than attenuating situation-specific considerations. Results of four studies support these predictions. Study 1 shows that more temporally distant transgressions (e.g., eating one's dead dog) are construed in terms of moral principles rather than contextual information. Studies 2 and 3 further show that morally offensive actions are judged more severely when imagined from a more distant temporal (Study 2) or social (Study 3) perspective. Finally, Study 4 shows that moral acts (e.g., adopting a disabled child) are judged more positively from temporal distance. The findings suggest that people more readily apply their moral principles to distant rather than proximal behaviors.
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- Eyal, T., Liberman, N., & Trope, Y.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-07
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1204-1209
- ISSN
- 0022-1031 (ISSN-L)
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- W2099104144
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- 373
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 5.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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