Moralization East and West

Moralizing different transgressions among Chinese, Americans, and Lithuanians

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21698147
AutoresRenatas Berniūnas (0000-0002-4720-8146, Institute of Psychology Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies Vilnius University Vilnius Lithuania, autor correspondente), 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)
Ano2022
Volume25
Fascículo2
Páginas185-197
Data de publicação2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAsian Journal Of Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1367-2223 • E-ISSN: 1467-839X
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ajsp.12479
OpenAlexW3162019364
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências 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