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Children’s moral evaluations of lying for one’s ingroup member

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2019, 32(1), pp.87-104
  • DOI : 10.35574/KJDP.2019.03.32.1.87
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
  • Received : January 15, 2019
  • Accepted : February 28, 2019

Kyong-sun Jin 1 황지현 2 Hyun Joo SONG 2

1성신여자대학교
2연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

The present experiments investigated moral judgments of blue lies­a false statement to conceal an ingroup member's moral transgressions. Adults and children were presented with vignettes and asked to evaluate the decisions of a protagonist who did not report their ingroup member’s (ingroup condition) or outgroup member's (outgroup condition) moral transgressions to a third person. The results showed that adults (Study 1) and 5-year-old children (Study 2A) evaluated the protagonist as more morally acceptable in the ingroup than in the outgroup condition; whereas 4-year-old children (Study 2B) did not show the difference across conditions. These results suggest that children’s moral justification of blue lies emerges around 5 years of age.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.