The Combined Roles of Moral Emotion and Moral Rules in Explaining Acts of Violence Using a Situational Action Theory Perspective

Trivedi‐Bateman, Neema

doi:10.1177/0886260519852634

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“…SAT supports the notion of people's moral ‘character’, that is to say, their personal moral norms, moral emotions, and ability to exercise self‐control, as a fundamental predictor of crime involvement. The importance of moral emotions and their relationships to empathy within the framework of SAT has been recently explored (Trivedi‐Bateman, 2015, 2019). Future research should also incorporate the ability to self‐control as an intervening mechanism in the association between empathy and (non)cooperation.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The moral emotions shame and guilt are important because they contribute to the strength of the individual moral rules that in turn ultimately play a role in one's decision to break the rules. The key findings in the study of Trivedi‐Bateman (2015) were (1) weak empathy, shame, and guilt have a significant relationship to higher violence involvement, (2) both shame but especially guilt have a strong relationship with moral rules, and (3) overall morality (rules and emotions) significantly predicts violence and total crime (Trivedi‐Bateman, 2015, 2019).…”

Section: Empathy and Moralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Empathy and theft by finding: The intermediary role of moral emotions and norms

Buck

Pauwels

2021

Journal Community Psychology

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This study explores the intermediary role of anticipated shame, guilt, and norms in the association between empathy and the likelihood of a specific uncooperative act: theft by finding. Empirical evidence supports a negative association between empathy and a broad range of uncooperative behaviors. Some studies suggest that empathy reduces noncooperation via intermediary factors such as empathy and moral emotions shame and guilt. Inspired by Martin Hoffman's empathy-based theory of moral development, we propose a testable model in which individual differences in empathic concern and perspective-taking are positively related to anticipated guilt, shame, and conduct-specific moral norm, which in turn reduce the likelihood of theft by finding. Data were collected from a region-wide crosssectional sample of adolescents and young adults in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium in 2019 (N = 3591). Overall, our propositions were corroborated. Structural equation modeling suggests that empathic concern inhibits the likelihood of theft by finding via anticipated guilt-shame. The discussion focuses on a better understanding of the relationship between empathy, moral dimensions, and uncooperative choices.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Empathy and Moralitymentioning

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Empathy and theft by finding: The intermediary role of moral emotions and norms

Buck

Pauwels

2021

Journal Community Psychology

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“…Hence, they have less cost to consider when contemplating acts of crime (Hirschi, 2004). In a similar way, empathy deficits have been assumed to result in less compassion for the suffering of other individuals (Klapwijk et al, 2017) and a reduced proneness to experience feelings of guilt when hurting others (Trivedi-Bateman, 2019).…”

Section: Empathymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This endeavour resulted in ample support for criminogenic implications of poor empathic abilities (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004;Vachon et al, 2014;Van Langen et al, 2014;Zych et al, 2019). Scholars agree that empathy is critical for fathoming people's propensity for crime (Trivedi-Bateman, 2019). A lack of empathy has been found to increase the likelihood of a broad range of antisocial and criminal behaviours, among them violent (Shechtman, 2002;Romero-Martinez et al, 2016), sexual (Hempel et al, 2015;Loinaz et al, 2021) and fraudulent (Craig, 2017;O'Neill, 2020) offending as well as substance abuse (Martinotti et al, 2009;Ferrari et al, 2014) and bullying (Mitsopoulou & Giovazolias, 2015;Van Noorden et al, 2015).…”

Section: Empathymentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Empathy Attenuate the Criminogenic Effect of Low Self-Control in Late Life?

Hirtenlehner

Trivedi‐Bateman

Baier

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International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justi

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The present study investigates whether empathy shapes the criminogenic effect of low self-control in late adulthood. Based on the assumption that the capacity to understand and share the thoughts and emotions of other people moderates the significance of the capability to consider the distant consequences of behaviour on oneself, we posit that poor self-control is less consequential among senior citizens of high empathy. The results of a postal survey of 3,000 randomly selected older adults from Germany indicate that both low trait self-control and weak trait empathy increase offending in advanced age. Furthermore, the findings provide evidence of an interaction according to which the relationship between the risk-taking component of the self-control trait and criminal activity is stronger for older adults characterised by low empathy. Impulsivity, on the other hand, seems to mediate the association of empathy and offending in late life.

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“…SAT posits that moral values and emotions have a significant role in explaining criminal involvement (Wikström, 2014; Wikström & Treiber, 2009). As noted by Trivedi-Bateman (2019), “although the theory prioritizes the importance of clear definitions of concepts and mechanisms, further work is required to build a comprehensive explanation of the specific role of moral emotion in crime” (p. 6). Previous work suggests that our understanding of morally driven behaviors would be enhanced by disentangling the roles of moral socialization, empathy, moral courage, and moral identity (Blasi, 2004; Hitlin, 2007; Osswald et al, 2011; Sonnentag & Barnett, 2016).…”

Section: Satmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Moral Identity Matter in Situational Action Theory? Some Evidence of Iranian Fans’ Cyberbullying Perpetration

Kabiri

Shadmanfaat

Samuels-Wortley

et al. 2020

International Criminal Justice Review

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Situational action theory (SAT) posits that morality plays a core role in determining whether situations are viewed as suitable for crime. However, little attention has been paid to moral identity, the degree to which a person considers morality to occupy a central position in their view of themselves. Using a convenience sample of Iranian soccer fans ( N = 374), we test both the direct and moderated role of moral identity in explaining cyberbullying, an outcome that differs from most SAT research focusing on violent/property crime. We find that fans with a weaker moral identity tend to engage in more cyberbullying and that moral identity significantly interacts with a number of SAT-derived predictors (moral emotions, self-control, perceptual deterrence, and situational morality) in expected ways.

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The Combined Roles of Moral Emotion and Moral Rules in Explaining Acts of Violence Using a Situational Action Theory Perspective

Abstract: The combined roles of moral emotion and moral rules in explaining acts of violence using a situational action theory perspective

Cited by 22 publications

References 90 publications

Empathy and theft by finding: The intermediary role of moral emotions and norms

Empathy and theft by finding: The intermediary role of moral emotions and norms

Does Empathy Attenuate the Criminogenic Effect of Low Self-Control in Late Life?

Does Moral Identity Matter in Situational Action Theory? Some Evidence of Iranian Fans’ Cyberbullying Perpetration

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