Moral parochialism and causal appraisal of transgressive harm in Seoul and Los Angeles.

ABSTRACT: The evolutionary fitness payoffs of moral condemnation are greatest within an individual's immediate social milieu. Accordingly, insofar as human moral intuitions have been shaped by adaptive design, we can expect transgressive harms to be perceived as more wrong when transpiring in the here and now than when occurring at a distance, or with the approval of local authority figures. This moral parochialism hypothesis has been supported by research conducted in diverse societies, but has yet to be tested in an East Asian society, despite prior research indicating that East Asians appraise transgressive acts as being caused by situational and contextual factors to a greater extent than do Westerners, who tend to emphasize dispositional factors (i.e., the transgressor's personal nature). Here,

SUBMITTER: Holbrook C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9392729 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature