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Altruistic punishment of third party and Ego-depletion

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2019, v.33 no.4, pp.21-43
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2019.33.4.002


Abstract

Regarding the altruistic punishment of a third party, an act committed by a person unrelated to the situation after witnessing an unfair situation. the inequity aversion model describes the experienced moral outrage when witnessing an unfair situation as a determinant of a third party's altruistic punishment, but does not address what cognitive processes lead to third-party punishment. Present study was intended to find out why moral outrage led to the decision of the altruistic punishment of a third party to approach the cognitive processing process through the theory of dual system and the ego-depletion incurred stronger punishment. For these purposes, 40 participants were randomly assigned to high and low ego-depletion conditions, manipulated ego-depletion, and then played third party punishment game, and measured the moral outrage experienced in each situation. Results of this study found that the more unfair situation participants witnessed, the more strongly they experienced moral outrage, but there was no difference between conditions. However, participants not only imposed stronger punishment on the more unfair the situation they witnessed, but also stronger punishments than high ego-depletion conditions were lower when the unfairness of the situation they witnessed was relatively high. These difference between conditions was significant even though controlling the effects of the moral outrage. These results indicate that the role of system 1 that is impulsive and emotion-based and system 2. which has adjust and self-control function on the altruistic punishment of third parties, and the reason why ego-depletion increases the third-party’s punishment is no because of the experience of increased moral outrage but because of the impaired function of system 2.

keywords
이타적 처벌, 불공정성, 자아고갈, 도덕적 격분, 이중처리이론, altruistic punishment, unfairness, Ego depletion, moral outrage, dual process theory

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