Usually people consider morality traits to be highly valuable, both in themselves and in others. Moreover, they tend to select moral groups and are often motivated to protect the positive identity of their groups by derogating immoral ingroup members. However, sometimes even moral ingroup members could represent a threat to the group and therefore be negatively evaluated, such as in the case of people who report another person's wrongdoing (whistleblowing). To date an investigation of people's judgments of someone who self- disclose his/her own wrongdoing is still missing. Our study aims to investigate how group members react to an ingroup and an outgroup member who confessed to having committed a severe wrongdoing. Results of a study conducted by using a real episode concerning a surgeon who confessed a fatal error, confirm our expectation; even if medical students appreciated the confession of the surgeon, they are less positive in evaluating his behavior compared to other students

In the name of truth. People's reactions to ingroup and outgroup members who self-disclose a severe error / Rullo, M.; Monaco, S.; Giannini, F.; Livi, S.; Presaghi, F.. - In: SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL. - ISSN 0362-3319. - (2018). [10.1016/j.soscij.2018.07.003]

In the name of truth. People's reactions to ingroup and outgroup members who self-disclose a severe error

Livi S.;Presaghi F.
2018

Abstract

Usually people consider morality traits to be highly valuable, both in themselves and in others. Moreover, they tend to select moral groups and are often motivated to protect the positive identity of their groups by derogating immoral ingroup members. However, sometimes even moral ingroup members could represent a threat to the group and therefore be negatively evaluated, such as in the case of people who report another person's wrongdoing (whistleblowing). To date an investigation of people's judgments of someone who self- disclose his/her own wrongdoing is still missing. Our study aims to investigate how group members react to an ingroup and an outgroup member who confessed to having committed a severe wrongdoing. Results of a study conducted by using a real episode concerning a surgeon who confessed a fatal error, confirm our expectation; even if medical students appreciated the confession of the surgeon, they are less positive in evaluating his behavior compared to other students
2018
Confession; moral judgments; morality; self-disclosure; whistleblowers; social psychology; sociology and political science
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In the name of truth. People's reactions to ingroup and outgroup members who self-disclose a severe error / Rullo, M.; Monaco, S.; Giannini, F.; Livi, S.; Presaghi, F.. - In: SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL. - ISSN 0362-3319. - (2018). [10.1016/j.soscij.2018.07.003]
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