Judging those closest from afar: The effect of psychological distance and abstraction on value-judgment correspondence in responses to ingroup moral transgressions
Kahn, Dennis LU and Björklund, Fredrik LU
(2017)
In Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
23(2).
p.153-161
- Abstract
- The purpose of the present research was to examine the effect of psychological distance and abstraction on judgment of ingroup moral transgressions. Based on Construal Level Theory (Trope & Liberman, 2010), we hypothesized that psychological distance and high level construal increases the degree to which moral value preference determines judgment (value-judgment correspondence) in response to ingroup moral transgressions. This hypothesis was supported in two studies. In study 1, carried out among Jewish-Israeli university students (N = 100), tendency for abstract construal was associated with higher value-judgment correspondence in responses to torture of a suspected terrorist. In study 2, carried out in a sample of Jewish Israelis (N... (More)
- The purpose of the present research was to examine the effect of psychological distance and abstraction on judgment of ingroup moral transgressions. Based on Construal Level Theory (Trope & Liberman, 2010), we hypothesized that psychological distance and high level construal increases the degree to which moral value preference determines judgment (value-judgment correspondence) in response to ingroup moral transgressions. This hypothesis was supported in two studies. In study 1, carried out among Jewish-Israeli university students (N = 100), tendency for abstract construal was associated with higher value-judgment correspondence in responses to torture of a suspected terrorist. In study 2, carried out in a sample of Jewish Israelis (N = 125), describing an airstrike with a high number of civilian casualties at a greater psychological distance (as hypothetical) lead to greater value-judgment correspondence than when the scenario was described as a non-hypothetical event. We discuss the relevance of the result to construal level theory, moral psychology and conflict resolution. (Less)
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- author
- Kahn, Dennis
LU
and Björklund, Fredrik
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-01-24
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- ingroup moral transgression, Construal Level Theory, intergroup conflict, psychological distance, abstraction
- in
- Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
- volume
- 23
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 153 - 161
- publisher
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85013845221
- wos:000400701900006
- ISSN
- 1078-1919
- DOI
- 10.1037/pac0000248
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 11263c77-60b3-4a68-af85-fee0a8ffd737
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