University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2022 Jan;48(1):78-94. doi: 10.1177/0146167220984293. Epub 2021 Feb 3.
This article aims to conceptualize, for the first time, an implicit form of moral disengagement and investigate its role in relation to cheating behavior. In line with the implicit social-cognition models, we argue that the implicit moral disengagement would represent an unintentional, automatic, and less accessible form of the mechanisms bypassing the moral self-regulatory system. We anticipate that in situations implying on-the-spot decisions and where individuals might suffer no consequences for the misconduct, the implicit moral disengagement would predict the actual behavior while the explicit moral disengagement would predict self-reported conduct. The results of three empirical studies provide support for the theorization of an implicit moral disengagement and its assessment through a newly developed implicit measurement procedure using the relational responding task. Results of the structural equation models, including both implicit and explicit moral disengagement, demonstrated that only the implicit one was associated with the actual misconduct.
本文旨在首次概念化一种隐性的道德脱离，并探讨其与欺骗行为的关系。根据隐性社会认知模型，我们认为隐性道德脱离代表了一种无意识、自动和较少可及的绕过道德自我调节系统的机制形式。我们预计，在涉及即时决策且个人可能不会因不当行为而受到后果的情况下，隐性道德脱离将预测实际行为，而显性道德脱离将预测自我报告的行为。三项实证研究的结果支持了隐性道德脱离的理论化及其通过使用关系反应任务的新开发的隐性测量程序进行评估。结构方程模型的结果包括显性和隐性道德脱离，结果表明只有隐性道德脱离与实际的不当行为有关。
