I and my friends are good people: The perception of incivility by self, friends and strangers
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Hess, Ursula
Cossette, Michel
Hareli, Shlomo
Abstract / Description
Three studies were conducted to assess self-serving biases in participants’ beliefs about incivility, its antecedents and consequences as well as restitution behaviors and forgiveness as a function of whether a behavior was performed by themselves, strangers or friends. Participants who imagined themselves in the active role not only described their own behavior as more excusable, congruent with an actor-observer bias, but more importantly, they showed strong self-serving biases with regard to all their reactions to the situation – even though this leads to logical contradictions. This self-serving expectation generalized to friends and contrasted sharply with expectations for strangers, whose behaviors were described as logically consistent. The difference between what is expected from self and friends and what is expected from others may account for much of the popular moral outrage at incivility in various social realms.
Keyword(s)
perceived incivility self-serving-biases restitution behaviors forgiveness emotionsPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2016-02-29
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
12
Issue
1
Page numbers
99–114
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
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Review status
peerReviewed
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Hess, U., Cossette, M., & Hareli, S. (2016). I and my friends are good people: The perception of incivility by self, friends and strangers. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(1), 99–114. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i1.937
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Hess, Ursula
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Cossette, Michel
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Hareli, Shlomo
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Date of first publication2016-02-29
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Abstract / DescriptionThree studies were conducted to assess self-serving biases in participants’ beliefs about incivility, its antecedents and consequences as well as restitution behaviors and forgiveness as a function of whether a behavior was performed by themselves, strangers or friends. Participants who imagined themselves in the active role not only described their own behavior as more excusable, congruent with an actor-observer bias, but more importantly, they showed strong self-serving biases with regard to all their reactions to the situation – even though this leads to logical contradictions. This self-serving expectation generalized to friends and contrasted sharply with expectations for strangers, whose behaviors were described as logically consistent. The difference between what is expected from self and friends and what is expected from others may account for much of the popular moral outrage at incivility in various social realms.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationHess, U., Cossette, M., & Hareli, S. (2016). I and my friends are good people: The perception of incivility by self, friends and strangers. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(1), 99–114. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i1.937
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/992
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1184
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i1.937
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Keyword(s)perceived incivilityen_US
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Keyword(s)self-serving-biasesen_US
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Keyword(s)restitution behaviorsen_US
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Keyword(s)forgivenessen_US
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Keyword(s)emotionsen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleI and my friends are good people: The perception of incivility by self, friends and strangersen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue1
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers99–114
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Volume12
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