TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Conflicting influences of justice motivations on moral judgments
JO  - Cognition and emotion
A1  - Yoder, Keith J.
A1  - Decety, Jean
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Humans are motivated by justice concerns, yet vary in their reactions to observing or experiencing injustice. At a proximate level, approach and avoidance represent core fundamental motivational systems which have been proposed to be involved in two independent moral systems: a prescriptive system responsive to obligations (<i>"shoulds"</i>) and a proscriptive system concerned with prohibitions (<i>"should nots"</i>). It is unclear whether these motivational systems or personal involvement better explain the influence of justice dispositions on moral judgments. To clarify this theoretical argument, two experiments examined how dispositional self-oriented and other-oriented justice sensitivity influence condemnation of prescriptive and proscriptive violations while manipulating perspective between-subject or within-subject. Participants rated the permissibility of everyday moral transgressions, from the perspective of the victim or a neutral observer. In Study 1 (<i>n</i> = 235), self-oriented dispositions increased and other-oriented dispositions decreased the probability of rating prescriptive violations as permissible. Study 2 (<i>n</i> = 468) replicated the effect of other-oriented justice sensitivity. Overall, these results bridge the gap between motivational systems and self-other processing. They suggest that justice sensitivity is better conceptualised as distinct motivations which can exert opposing influences on moral decision-making. Moreover, personal involvement may not be as important as individual justice motivations for explaining everyday moral decision-making.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0269-9931
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1669536
ID  - ref1
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