Look at yourself!: Visual perspective influences moral judgment through level of mental construal
Agerström, Jens LU ; Björklund, Fredrik LU
and Carlsson, Rickard
LU
(2013)
In Social Psychology
44(1).
p.42-46
- Abstract
- Previous research (Libby et al., 2009) has established that a third-person (outside) visual perspective elicits more abstract processing than a first-person (inside) perspective. Because many moral principles constitute abstract psychological constructs, we predicted that they should weigh more heavily when people adopt a third-person visual perspective. In two experiments we show that a third- (vs. first-) person visual perspective leads to harsher judgments of one’s own morally questionable actions. Moreover, we demonstrate that this effect can be partially explained by level of mental construal. The present research suggests that simple visual perspective techniques may be used to promote moral behavior.
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- author
- Agerström, Jens
LU
; Björklund, Fredrik
LU
and Carlsson, Rickard
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- construal, visual perspective, moral judgment
- in
- Social Psychology
- volume
- 44
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 42 - 46
- publisher
- Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
- external identifiers
-
- wos:000313742900007
- scopus:84872539367
- ISSN
- 2151-2590
- DOI
- 10.1027/1864-9335/a000100
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 24a34ced-6f08-4048-b6f0-1e175c614585 (old id 2157913)
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- 2016-04-01 10:28:55
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