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Are Proselfs More Deceptive and Hypocritical? Social Image Concerns in Appearing Fair

Deception varies across individuals and social contexts. The present research explored how individual difference measured by social value orientations, and situations, affect deception in moral hypocrisy. In two experiments, participants made allocations between themselves and recipients with an opp...

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Autores principales: Tang, Honghong, Wang, Shun, Liang, Zilu, Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Su, Song, Liu, Chao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6258808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30519206
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02268
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author Tang, Honghong
Wang, Shun
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Su, Song
Liu, Chao
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description Deception varies across individuals and social contexts. The present research explored how individual difference measured by social value orientations, and situations, affect deception in moral hypocrisy. In two experiments, participants made allocations between themselves and recipients with an opportunity to deceive recipients where recipients cannot reject their allocations. Experiment 1 demonstrated that proselfs were more deceptive and hypocritical than prosocials by lying to be apparently fair, especially when deception was unrevealed. Experiment 2 showed that proselfs were more concerned about social image in deception in moral hypocrisy than prosocials were. They decreased apparent fairness when deception was revealed and evaluated by a third-party reviewer and increased it when deception was evaluated but unrevealed. These results show that prosocials and proselfs differed in pursuing deception and moral hypocrisy social goals and provide implications for decreasing deception and moral hypocrisy.
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spelling pubmed-62588082018-12-05 Are Proselfs More Deceptive and Hypocritical? Social Image Concerns in Appearing Fair Tang, Honghong Wang, Shun Liang, Zilu Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter Su, Song Liu, Chao Front Psychol Psychology Deception varies across individuals and social contexts. The present research explored how individual difference measured by social value orientations, and situations, affect deception in moral hypocrisy. In two experiments, participants made allocations between themselves and recipients with an opportunity to deceive recipients where recipients cannot reject their allocations. Experiment 1 demonstrated that proselfs were more deceptive and hypocritical than prosocials by lying to be apparently fair, especially when deception was unrevealed. Experiment 2 showed that proselfs were more concerned about social image in deception in moral hypocrisy than prosocials were. They decreased apparent fairness when deception was revealed and evaluated by a third-party reviewer and increased it when deception was evaluated but unrevealed. These results show that prosocials and proselfs differed in pursuing deception and moral hypocrisy social goals and provide implications for decreasing deception and moral hypocrisy. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6258808/ /pubmed/30519206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02268 Text en Copyright © 2018 Tang, Wang, Liang, Sinnott-Armstrong, Su and Liu. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Tang, Honghong
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Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
Su, Song
Liu, Chao
Are Proselfs More Deceptive and Hypocritical? Social Image Concerns in Appearing Fair
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title_full Are Proselfs More Deceptive and Hypocritical? Social Image Concerns in Appearing Fair
title_fullStr Are Proselfs More Deceptive and Hypocritical? Social Image Concerns in Appearing Fair
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title_short Are Proselfs More Deceptive and Hypocritical? Social Image Concerns in Appearing Fair
title_sort are proselfs more deceptive and hypocritical? social image concerns in appearing fair
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6258808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30519206
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02268
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