Moralization East and West

Moralizing different transgressions among Chinese, Americans, and Lithuanians

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21698147
AutoresRenatas Berniūnas (0000-0002-4720-8146, Institute of Psychology Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies Vilnius University Vilnius Lithuania, autor de correspondencia), Vytis Silius (0000-0002-2953-6752, Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies Vilnius University Vilnius Lithuania), Vilius Dranseika (0000-0002-1144-1624, Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies Vilnius University Vilnius Lithuania)
Año2022
Volumen25
Número2
Páginas185-197
Fecha de publicación2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Journal Of Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1367-2223 • E-ISSN: 1467-839X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ajsp.12479
OpenAlexW3162019364
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas43

In this article, we report a cross‐cultural study on how different types of social transgressions are moralised by Chinese, Americans, and Lithuanians. We hypothesised that given the continuing influences of Confucian worldview on contemporary Chinese societies, the Chinese will not make a distinction between moral ( daode 道德) and conventional cultural norms (wenming 文明). Following Turiel’s moral/conventional task, we characterised moral transgressions in terms of two dimensions: Their wrongness is perceived to be independent of any authorities’ opinion and general in scope. The results indicate that Chinese participants were slightly more “moralising” than Americans and Lithuanians in the typical (Haidtean) moral domains. More importantly, unlike Americans and Lithuanians, the Chinese strongly moralised uncultured (wenming 文明) behaviour. Results also indicate that explicit considerations about purity were quite important across all three cultural groups. These mixed results are discussed in the light of recent debates about the scope of morality and the moral/conventional distinction

Chinese americans · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Moral disengagement · Morality · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology