Berengut, Abigail (2025) The Moral Intersection of Political Ideology and Gender: A Study on Harm Perception. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This study investigated how the gender of an alleged victim and the political ideology of an observer influence perceptions of non-physical harm. In an online vignette-based experiment, participants read an allegation made by either a man or a woman in the workplace and rated the severity of alleged harm. The total sample size was N = 146, and participants were recruited to voluntarily participate from a pool of university students. It was hypothesized that allegations made by a woman would be perceived as more severe than those made by a man, and that participants who identified as more liberal or left-leaning would evaluate harm as more severe overall. An interaction was also predicted: participants who identified as more liberal or left-leaning were expected to evaluate allegations of harm made by a woman more severely, while those who identified as more conservative or right-leaning were expected to evaluate allegations of harm made by a woman less severely. The results supported both main effects of gender and political ideology on perceived severity of alleged harm. A significant interaction indicated that political ideology moderated the effect of the claimant’s gender on the perceived severity of alleged harm, however, this effect was observed only among participants who identified as more liberal or left-leaning due to limited representation of conservative or right-leaning participants in the sample. These findings highlight how the identity of both a victim and an observer can influence how harm is perceived. Keywords: gender, harm allegations, moral judgment, political ideology, vignette-based experiment
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Graso, M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2025 07:20 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2025 07:20 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5497 |
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