Recalling an Unfair Experience Reduces Adolescents’ Dishonest Behavioral Intentions: The Mediating Role of Justice Sensitivity

Giovannelli, Ilaria; Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina; Pagliaro, Stefano; Tomasetto, Carlo; Barreto, Manuela

doi:10.1007/s11211-017-0299-9

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“…This supports both recent findings that perceived injustice in an educational context may have a significant impact on the lives of adolescents by potentially influencing dishonesty ( 62 ), and earlier studies showing that unfair treatment has implications for emotional states and behaviors ( 63 , 64 ). Research has observed that there are variations in sensitivity to unjust treatment ( 62 , 65 ), which may explain why this type is an overarching cause for some and not others. These findings, therefore, highlight that young people interpret events differently, but also demonstrate that young people may experience unfair treatment in comparison to their peers/sibling etc.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…The second type, unfair treatment, highlights that, for some young people, what they interpret as unfair treatment may become the overarching cause of their emotional distress. This supports both recent findings that perceived injustice in an educational context may have a significant impact on the lives of adolescents by potentially influencing dishonesty (62), and earlier studies showing that unfair treatment has implications for emotional states and behaviors (63,64). Research has observed that there are variations in sensitivity to unjust treatment (62,65), which may explain why this type is an overarching cause for some and not others.…”

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confidence: 87%

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Adolescents' Understanding of What Causes Emotional Distress: A Qualitative Exploration in a Non-clinical Sample Using Ideal-Type Analysis

O’Neill

Stapley

Stock

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Background: There is increased interest in early intervention and prevention of mental health difficulties during adolescence; thus, we are seeing increased efforts to optimize well-being during this epoch. Positive emotional experiences are a central component of overall well-being. However, research exploring what adolescents perceive to be the cause(s) of their emotional difficulties is lacking. Improving understanding of this issue within non-clinical adolescent groups may provide useful insight into how to develop strategies to support young people as they navigate emotional difficulties.Objectives: The aim of this research was to explore if meaningful categories of perceived cause(s) for emotional distress exist for non-clinical adolescent groups.Methods: The data for this study were drawn from interviews across 6 sites in England conducted as part of the 5-year national evaluation of the HeadStart Learning Programme. The sample comprised of 32 young people aged 11–12 years from the first annual wave of qualitative data collection in 2017. Ideal type analysis—a qualitative form of person-centered analysis—was used to construct a typology of adolescents perceived cause(s) for emotional distress.Findings: We identified five distinct categories of perceived cause: (1) perceived lack of control; (2) unfair treatment; (3) others, their actions and judgements as the catalyst; (4) concerns for self and others; and, (5) self as cause.Conclusions: Our findings illustrate that distinct categories for perceived cause of emotional distress exist among adolescents considered to be “at risk” of developing mental health difficulties, which provides a foundation for future necessary work seeking to investigate the possible link between perceived cause for emotional distress and help-seeking behavior among sub-clinical groups.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Adolescents' Understanding of What Causes Emotional Distress: A Qualitative Exploration in a Non-clinical Sample Using Ideal-Type Analysis

O’Neill

Stapley

Stock

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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“…For people, the theory of BDT and previous studies have demonstrated humans can integrate social contextual information and personal information into decision‐making processes to adjust their responses toward inequity (Giovannelli et al, 2018 ; Nook et al, 2016 ; Peysakhovich et al, 2014 ). Extending findings to the social decision domain, our results suggest that previous unfair experience under the context of (dis)advantageous can alter personal third‐party responses to injustice.…”

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Neural mechanisms of the mood effects on third‐party responses to injustice after unfair experiences

Xie

Liu

et al. 2022

Human Brain Mapping

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Behavioral decision theory argues that humans can adjust their third‐party responses (e.g., punishment and compensation) to injustice by integrating unfair experiences. Typically, the mood plays an important role in such a decision‐making process. However, the underlying neurocognitive bases remain largely unclear. We first employ a modified third‐party justice game in which an allocator split an amount of money between oneself and a receiver. The participants can reapportion the money as observers by choosing from the following three costly options: compensate the receiver, accept the current allocation, or punish the allocator. Then, a second‐party pseudo interaction is conducted where participants receive more (i.e., advantageous unfair experience) or less (i.e., disadvantageous unfair experience) than others. Finally, participants perform the third‐party justice game again after unfair experiences. Here, we use functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure participants' brain activities during third‐party responses to injustice. We find participants compensate more to the receiver after advantageous unfair experience, which involved enhanced positive emotion, weakened sense of unfairness, and is linked with increased activity in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC). In contrast, participants punish more on the allocator after disadvantageous unfair experience, which might primarily stem from their negative emotional responses, strong sense of unfairness, and is associated with significantly decreased activity in the rDLPFC. Our results suggest that third‐party compensation and punishment involved differential psychological and neural bases. Our findings highlight the crucial roles of second‐party unfair experiences and the corresponding mood responses in third‐party responses to unfairness, and unravel the intermediate neural architecture.

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“…Observer JS was positively related to disobeying an authority in order to be honest—particularly when the participants’ moral identity was also high—and to intervening despite physical danger in hypothetical scenarios (Sonnentag et al, 2018). Altruistic JS mediated the relation between recalling unfair events and lower willingness to behave dishonestly (Giovannelli et al, 2018).…”

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Links between justice sensitivity and moral reasoning, moral emotions, and moral identity in middle childhood

Strauß

Bondü

2021

Child Development

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Middle childhood is a critical phase for moral development with marked changes in moral reasoning (i.e., the level of justification for moral conduct) and moral emotions (i.e., affective responses to moral-related situations), and early indicators of moral identity (i.e., the consolidation of self-concept and moral traits; Hardy & Carlo, 2011;. Recent research indicated that individual differences in the tendency to frequently perceive and intensively respond to injustice, that is, in justice sensitivity (JS), also manifest in this age range (Strauß et al., 2020). Because JS was considered a moral trait (Baumert et al., 2013) and consistently related to prosocial behavior in older age groups (Bondü & Elsner, 2015;Edele et al., 2013;Strauß et al., 2020), it may also add to explain moral development. However, the potential role of moral-related traits for different dimensions of moral development in general was hardly considered and potential differential associations between JS in particular and moral cognitions, moral emotions, as well as moral identity have never been examined up to now. This, however, seems particularly interesting in childhood as a sensitive phase for both moral and JS development and because relations may be complex, as JS comprises concerns for justice for the self and for others. Therefore, the present study examined potential relations between JS and common measures of morality in middle childhood while controlling for theory of mind (ToM) and empathy as relevant social skills. Justice sensitivityJustice is an important aspect of what is generally considered as moral (Kohlberg, 1976;Rawls, 1971).

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Recalling an Unfair Experience Reduces Adolescents’ Dishonest Behavioral Intentions: The Mediating Role of Justice Sensitivity

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

Adolescents' Understanding of What Causes Emotional Distress: A Qualitative Exploration in a Non-clinical Sample Using Ideal-Type Analysis

Adolescents' Understanding of What Causes Emotional Distress: A Qualitative Exploration in a Non-clinical Sample Using Ideal-Type Analysis

Neural mechanisms of the mood effects on third‐party responses to injustice after unfair experiences

Links between justice sensitivity and moral reasoning, moral emotions, and moral identity in middle childhood

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