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Whose side are you on? Exploring the role of perspective taking on third-party’s reactions to workplace deviance

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Fiori, Marina, Krings, Franciska, Kleinlogel, Emmanuelle, Reich, Tara·2016·Basic and Applied Social Psychology
DOI 10.1080/01973533.2016.1215984
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We introduce perspective taking as an antecedent of third-party reactions to different forms of workplace deviance. Varying the perspective taken by third-parties, the target and the type of workplace deviance, we show that third-parties who take the perpetrator’s perspective perceive the incident as less of a moral violation, make less internal, and more external attributions for the perpetrator’s behavior, which in turn reduces endorsement of punishment. Findings were consistent across four studies, and the mediating mechanisms supported by the instrumental variable method and the concurrent double randomization design.

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Fiori, M., Krings, F., Kleinlogel, E., & Reich, T.
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  • University of Lausanne (CH)
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
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Basic and Applied Social Psychology
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2016-09-14
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38
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318-336
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  • 0197-3533 (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-4834
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10.1080/01973533.2016.1215984
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Ethics in Business and Education
Keywords
perspective taking, workplace deviance, third-party reactions, moral transgression, attribution, perpetrator perspective

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