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Does Power Increase Moral hypocrisy?: Moderating Role of Moral Identity

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2018, v.32 no.1, pp.49-64
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2018.32.1.003

(2018). Does Power Increase Moral hypocrisy?: Moderating Role of Moral Identity. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 32(1), 49-64, https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2018.32.1.003

Abstract

Based on the previous research on moral hypocrisy and power, this paper hypothesized that power increases moral hypocrisy and moral identity moderates the relationship between them. In study 1, 3 power conditions (high power, low power, control) and 2 self-relevance conditions(moral norm judging, actual moral behavior) were designed to test the effect of power on moral judging and behavior. In study 2, the three-way interaction of power conditions(high, low), self-relevance conditions(self, others), and moral identity (high, low) was explored. Results of study 1 showed whereas the low power group expressed more generous standard to others compared to the high power and the control groups, the high power group showed more unethical elf-interested behaviors than the other groups. However, the general morality of power priming groups was lower than the control group, whether it is high power or low power, which does not support the argument that the powerless show hypercrisy. Study 2 unveiled the moderating role of moral identity. In specific, the powerful showed moral hypocrisy in the group with low moral identity. However, the powerful were more strict to themselves than to others in the group with high moral identity. The implications and limitations of this study and the directions for the future research were discussed.

keywords
권력, 도덕적 위선, 도덕적 정체성, 자기 관련성, power, moral hypocrisy, moral identity, self-relevance

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