%0 Journal Article
%T Do People Believe That They Are More Deontological Than Others?
%A Li-Lin Rao
%A Ming-Hui Li
%J Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
%@ 1552-7433
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0146167218823040
%X The question of how we decide that someone else has done something wrong is at the heart of moral psychology. Little work has been done to investigate whether people believe that othersĄŻ moral judgment differs from their own in moral dilemmas. We conducted four experiments using various measures and diverse samples to demonstrate the self¨Cother discrepancy in moral judgment. We found that (a) people were more deontological when they made moral judgments themselves than when they judged a stranger (Studies 1-4) and (b) a protected values (PVs) account outperformed an emotion account and a construal-level theory account in explaining this self¨Cother discrepancy (Studies 3 and 4). We argued that the self¨Cother discrepancy in moral judgment may serve as a protective mechanism co-evolving alongside the social exchange mechanism and may contribute to better understanding the obstacles preventing people from cooperation
%K moral judgment
%K self¨Cother discrepancy
%K deontology
%K utilitarianism
%K protected values
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0146167218823040