Social dominance orientation predicts civil and military intelligence analysts’ utilitarian responses to ethics-of-intelligence dilemmas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21621401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesco Margoni (0000-0002-8109-228X, University of Oslo, corresponding author), Giangiuseppe Pili (0000-0002-7360-6826, University of Calabria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 13 |
| Pages | 10718-10728 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-1310 • E-ISSN: 1936-4733 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12144-021-02364-5 |
| OpenAlex | W3163517823 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 46 |
What is the real ethical framework of an intelligence analyst? We addressed this question by presenting a group of civil and military intelligence analysts ( N = 41), and a control group of non-professionals ( N = 41), with a set of dilemmas depicting intelligence agents facing the decision whether to violate a deontological rule where that would benefit their work (ethics-of-intelligence dilemmas). Participants judged how much violating the rule was acceptable. Next, we measured participants’ individual differences in social dominance orientation (using the Social Dominance Orientation scale which measures the proclivity to endorse intergroup hierarchy and anti-egalitarianism), their deontological and utilitarian response tendencies (using classical moral dilemmas), and how much they value rule conformity, traditions, and safety and stability in the society (using the Value Survey). A multiple regression analysis revealed that, among all the factors, only social dominance significantly helped explain variability in intelligence analysts’ but not non-professionals’ resolutions of the ethics-of-intelligence dilemmas. Specifically, social dominance positively predicted the tendency to judge violating the deontological rule acceptable, possibly suggesting that analysts who show a stronger proclivity to desire their country or company to prevail over others are also more lenient toward deontological violations if these result in a greater good for the state or the company. For the first time in the open literature, we elucidated some key aspects of the real ethics of intelligence
Conformity · Democracy · Deontological ethics · Egalitarianism · Political science · Politics · Social dilemma · Social dominance orientation · Social intelligence · Social value orientations · Ethics in Business and Education · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |