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Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic
Injustice typically involves some people benefitting at the expense of others. An opportunist might then be selectively motivated to amend only the injustice that is harmful to them, while someone more principled would respond consistently regardless of whether they stand to gain or lose. Here, we d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35354855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09253-2 |
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author | Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer Røysamb, Espen Vassend, Olav Ystrom, Eivind Thomsen, Lotte |
author_facet | Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer Røysamb, Espen Vassend, Olav Ystrom, Eivind Thomsen, Lotte |
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description | Injustice typically involves some people benefitting at the expense of others. An opportunist might then be selectively motivated to amend only the injustice that is harmful to them, while someone more principled would respond consistently regardless of whether they stand to gain or lose. Here, we disentangle such principled and opportunistic motives towards injustice. With a sample of 312 monozygotic- and 298 dizygotic twin pairs (N = 1220), we measured people’s propensity to perceive injustice as victims, observers, beneficiaries, and perpetrators of injustice, using the Justice Sensitivity scale. With a biometric approach to factor analysis, that provides increased stringency in inferring latent psychological traits, we find evidence for two substantially heritable factors explaining correlations between Justice Sensitivity facets. We interpret these factors as principled justice sensitivity (h(2) = 0.45) leading to increased sensitivity to injustices of all categories, and opportunistic justice sensitivity (h(2) = 0.69) associated with increased sensitivity to being a victim and a decreased propensity to see oneself as a perpetrator. These novel latent constructs share genetic substrate with psychological characteristics that sustain broad coordination strategies that capture the dynamic tension between honest cooperation versus dominance and defection, namely altruism, interpersonal trust, agreeableness, Social Dominance Orientation and opposition to immigration and foreign aid. |
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spelling | pubmed-89679102022-04-01 Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer Røysamb, Espen Vassend, Olav Ystrom, Eivind Thomsen, Lotte Sci Rep Article Injustice typically involves some people benefitting at the expense of others. An opportunist might then be selectively motivated to amend only the injustice that is harmful to them, while someone more principled would respond consistently regardless of whether they stand to gain or lose. Here, we disentangle such principled and opportunistic motives towards injustice. With a sample of 312 monozygotic- and 298 dizygotic twin pairs (N = 1220), we measured people’s propensity to perceive injustice as victims, observers, beneficiaries, and perpetrators of injustice, using the Justice Sensitivity scale. With a biometric approach to factor analysis, that provides increased stringency in inferring latent psychological traits, we find evidence for two substantially heritable factors explaining correlations between Justice Sensitivity facets. We interpret these factors as principled justice sensitivity (h(2) = 0.45) leading to increased sensitivity to injustices of all categories, and opportunistic justice sensitivity (h(2) = 0.69) associated with increased sensitivity to being a victim and a decreased propensity to see oneself as a perpetrator. These novel latent constructs share genetic substrate with psychological characteristics that sustain broad coordination strategies that capture the dynamic tension between honest cooperation versus dominance and defection, namely altruism, interpersonal trust, agreeableness, Social Dominance Orientation and opposition to immigration and foreign aid. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8967910/ /pubmed/35354855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09253-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer Røysamb, Espen Vassend, Olav Ystrom, Eivind Thomsen, Lotte Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic |
title | Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic |
title_full | Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic |
title_fullStr | Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic |
title_full_unstemmed | Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic |
title_short | Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic |
title_sort | justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35354855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09253-2 |
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