Children’s moral evaluations of lying for one’s ingroup member (내집단을 보호하기 위한 거짓말인 파란 거짓말에 대한 아동의 도덕적 평가)

Kyong-sun Jin (진경선); 황지현; Hyun-joo Song (송현주)

doi:10.35574/KJDP.2019.03.32.1.87

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.

KEYWORDS

lie, blue lie, ingroup, morality, moral evaluations

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