“…Moreover, they tend to select moral groups and are happy if their groups show moral superiority over other groups (Branscombe, Ellemers, Spears, & Doosje, 1999;Ellemers, Pagliaro, Barreto, & Leach, 2008), primarily because an important part of people's self-concept is derived from the group they belong to (Brewer & Hewstone, 2004;Hewstone, Rubin, & Willis, 2002;Presaghi & Rullo, 2018;Tajfel & Turner, 1979). For the same reason, they are often motivated to protect the positive identity of their group, upgrading moral group members over moral outgroup members and, additionally, derogating immoral and negative ingroup members (more so than outgroup members) that put the group's positive identity at stake (a phenomenon called black sheep effect, Abrams, Travaglino, Marques, Pinto, & Levine, 2018;Marques & Paez, 1994;Marques, Paez, & Abrams, 1998;Marques, Abrams, & Serôdio, 2001;Rullo, Presaghi, Livi, Mazzuca, & Dessi, 2017;Sammut, Bezzina, & Sartawi, 2015).…”