Standing-up against moral violations: The predicting role of attribution, kinship, and severity.

ABSTRACT: Witnesses of moral violations stand up for their moral principles, despite facing substantial costs for intervening. Notwithstanding its importance, little is known whether responsibility attributions and the relation between the victim and a witness (i.e., kinship) have different effects on the intention to intervene in situations of different severity (e.g., moral courage situations). We predict an interaction between the situation's severity and the victims' responsibility for their plight. In less-severe situations, witnesses would be less willing to help when they perceive the victim to be responsible for their plight. However, those who are not seen as responsible would receive more help. For more-severe situations, responsibility is predicted to have no effect. Opposite effects are

SUBMITTER: Urschler DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11318881 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature