May, Francesca (2024) The Dishonesty Dance: How the Felling of Injustice Makes You Want to Behave Dishonestly (But Maybe Your Inner Saint Can Stop You?). Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
All dishonesty is not evaluated equally, especially when in possession of justification for it. Indeed, research suggests a feeling of injustice is commonly used to rationalise cheating, seen as a way to restore a sense of justice. The current study investigated whether perceived injustice due to misfortune leads to self-serving dishonesty where there are no consequences for others. Further, the strength of an honest self-concept was introduced as a previously unmeasured interaction effect, with the hypothesis that a stronger desire to see oneself as honest would attenuate the impact of injustice on dishonesty. An experiment was conducted online with a sample of first-year psychology students, where a between-measures design (n = 52) was utilised to manipulate the feeling of injustice. Our findings did not indicate an induced feeling of injustice increased dishonest behaviour, nor was there an impact of a strong honest self-concept mitigating this effect. We urge future research to replicate our methodology with a larger sample, as the current results are inconclusive given the small sample size.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gutzkow, B. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2024 08:22 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2024 08:22 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3789 |
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