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Testing Education and Accountability as Moderators of the Self-Interest Bias in Moral Character Judgments.
| Τίτλος: | Testing Education and Accountability as Moderators of the Self-Interest Bias in Moral Character Judgments. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Lu Y; Department of Psychology in Sopot, SWPS University, Sopot, Poland., Miazek K; Department of Psychology in Sopot, SWPS University, Sopot, Poland., Bocian K; Department of Psychology in Sopot, SWPS University, Sopot, Poland. |
| Πηγή: | Personality & social psychology bulletin [Pers Soc Psychol Bull] 2026 Oct; Vol. 52 (10), pp. 3127-3143. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Aug 28. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Sage Publications for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7809042 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1552-7433 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 01461672 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Pers Soc Psychol Bull Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc Original Publication: Columbus, Ohio [etc.] Behavioral Sciences Laboratory [etc.] |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Judgment* , Morals* , Social Responsibility* , Character*, Humans ; Female ; Male ; Young Adult ; Adult ; Adolescent |
| Περίληψη: | The self-interest bias describes an inclination of people to evaluate transgressors morally better when the latter's actions serve the former's interests. Effective interventions to mitigate this type of self-serving bias remain underexplored. The current research investigates education and accountability as potential moderators of this bias. In preregistered Study 1 (N = 668), as predicted, educating participants about the self-interest bias eliminated its effect on their moral character judgments. However, across three preregistered accountability studies (N = 2,239), holding participants accountable for their judgments did not attenuate the bias. Similarly, in preregistered Study 5 (N = 641), we found no evidence of a combined effect of education and accountability on reducing the bias. These findings suggest that while increasing awareness through education may effectively reduce biased moral judgments, accountability, especially when lacking external scrutiny or consequences, does not. Theoretical implications, methodological limitations, and future research opportunities are discussed. |
| Competing Interests: | Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The authors declare that there are no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. K. Bocian, Y. Lu, and K. Miazek contributed to the study design. Testing and data collection were performed by K. Bocian, Y. Lu, and K. Miazek, and Y. Lu and K. Miazek performed the data analysis and interpretation under the supervision of K. Bocian. Y. Lu drafted the manuscript, K. Bocian and K. Miazek provided critical revisions. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript for submission. |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: accountability; education; moral character judgments; motivated cognition; self-interest bias |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20250828 Date Completed: 20260831 Latest Revision: 20260831 |
| Update Code: | 20260901 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13507493 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01461672251364308 |
| PMID: | 40876893 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
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