2023
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/w4jz2
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Skirting the Sacred: Moral Contexts Increase the Cost of Intentional Misunderstandings

Kiera Parece,
Sophie Elizabeth Colby Bridgers,
Peng Qian
et al.

Abstract: When people have conflicting goals, they sometimes use intentional misunderstandings (loopholes) to get around direct defiance. Both adults and children expect exploiting loopholes to be less costly than non-compliance (Bridgers et al., 2021; Bridgers et al., 2023; Qian et al., 2023). However, the mitigating effect of loopholes may not hold if they are used to dodge a moral obligation. Here, we replicated the finding that loopholes are less costly than non-compliance in neutral contexts, but found that loophol… Show more

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