Flade Felicitas, Messer Mario, Imhoff Roland
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
University of Cologne, Germany.
Int Rev Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 27;37:4. doi: 10.5334/irsp.775. eCollection 2024.
We report an internal reanalysis of five exploratory studies (total = 1460) and two preregistered experiments ( = 778; 528), in which we investigated to what extent perceived causal involvement in harming sweatshop workers increases perceived moral obligation to support the workers. Within hypothetical scenarios as well as alleged magazine articles, target persons purchasing sweatshop-made products were contrasted with uninvolved bystanders. When participants made judgments about abstract others, causal involvement moderately increased ratings of moral obligation. However, when facing their own complicity in maintaining sweatshop conditions, the effect of causal involvement was small to non-existent. The greater sensitivity to the moral imperative of causal responsibility for indirect harm within global supply chains for others than for the self cannot be attributed to defensive processes, however. To the contrary, moral obligation for the self remained comparatively high, even if causal responsibility was low, presumably due to the greater reliance on internal states for the self.
我们报告了对五项探索性研究（共1460人）和两项预先注册的实验（分别为778人；528人）的内部重新分析，在这些研究中，我们调查了在何种程度上，人们意识到自己在伤害血汗工厂工人方面的因果关联会增加其支持这些工人的道德义务感。在假设情景以及所谓的杂志文章中，购买血汗工厂生产产品的目标人物与未参与其中的旁观者形成了对比。当参与者对抽象的他人进行判断时，因果关联适度提高了道德义务评分。然而，当面对自己在维持血汗工厂状况方面的同谋行为时，因果关联的影响很小甚至不存在。然而，对全球供应链中间接伤害的因果责任的道德要求，人们对他人的敏感度高于对自己的敏感度，这不能归因于防御性心理过程。相反，即使因果责任较低，对自己的道德义务感仍然相对较高，这可能是因为人们在评判自己时更依赖内心状态。
