Who did it? Moral wrongness for us and them in the UK, US, and Brazil
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2023
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Philosophical Psychology
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Boggio P.S.
Rego G.G.
Everett J.A.C.
Vieira G.B.
Graves R.
Sinnott-Armstrong W.
Rego G.G.
Everett J.A.C.
Vieira G.B.
Graves R.
Sinnott-Armstrong W.
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© 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Morality has traditionally been described in terms of an impartial and objective “moral law”, and moral psychological research has largely followed in this vein, focusing on abstract moral judgments. But might our moral judgments be shaped not just by what the action is, but who is doing it? We looked at ratings of moral wrongness, manipulating whether the person doing the action was a friend, a refugee, or a stranger. We looked at these ratings across various moral foundations, and conducted the study in Brazil, US, and UK samples. Our most robust and consistent findings are that purity violations were judged more harshly when committed by ingroup members and less harshly when committed by the refugees in comparison to the unspecified agents, the difference between refugee and unspecified agents decays from liberals to conservatives, i.e., conservatives judge them more harshly than liberals do, and Brazilians participants are harsher than the US and UK participants. Our results suggest that purity violations are judged differently according to who committed them and according to the political ideology of the judges. We discuss the findings in light of various theories of groups dynamics, such as moral hypocrisy, moral disengagement, and the black sheep effect.