Do the Means Always Justify the Ends, or Do the Ends Sometimes Justify the Means? A Value Protection Model of Justice Reasoning

By Linda J. Skitka. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Social intuitionists answer six questions about moral psychology. (2008, background): “Skitka (2002) has shown that when people have a " moral mandate " —when they think they are defending an important moral issue—they behave differently, and are more willing to justify improper behavior, than when they have no moral mandate.”
Who Displays Ethical Leadership, and Why Does It Matter? An Examination of Antecedents and Consequences of Ethical Leadership (2012, background): “People should therefore be motivated to uphold their moral identities in order to avoid feeling inauthentic (Skitka, 2002).”
Integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for: A further extension of the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (2018, background): “This is important because value protection models (e.g., Skitka, 2002; Skitka & Mullen, 2002; Tetlock, 2002; Tetlock et al., 2000) suggest that perceived violations of values (e.g., discriminating against people on the basis of race or gender) motivate individuals to protect them, and thus bridge…”
Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal?: ‘Redeemability’ and the Psychology of Punitive Public Attitudes (2009, background): “An empirical illustration of this can be found in public opinion research by Stitka et al. (2002). Skitka and colleagues provided a series of scenarios to a national panel sample of 1,639 US residents, and asked them to choose between possible attributions.”
Understanding Judgments of Fairness in a Real-World Political Context: A Test of the Value Protection Model of Justice Reasoning (2002, background): “Similarly, Skitka (2002) found that under no threat to moral mandates, people’s strength of moral mandates on various political issues (e.g., abortion, civil rights, or immigration) were uncorrelated with perceptions of the procedural fairness of the Supreme Court or state referenda.”
Moral conviction: another contributor to attitude strength or something more? (2005, background): “Although other research has found weak or no correlation in moral conviction across issues (Skitka, 2002), this analysis yielded a more mixed conclusion.”
Morality (2008, unknown): “Much subsequent research in social psychology (Skitka, 2002; Volume 3—Number 1 69 Wheatley & Haidt, 2005), neuroscience (Damasio, 2003; Greene, Sommerville, Nystrom, Darley, & Cohen, 2001; Sanfey, Rilling, Aronson, Nystrom, & Cohen, 2003), and primatology (Flack & de Waal, 2000) supports the SIM…”
To act out, to withdraw, or to constructively resist? Employee reactions to supervisor abuse of customers and the moderating role of employee moral identity (2013, background): “Extant research suggests that when people associate with morally dissimilar others, it can challenge their understanding of themselves as moral people (Skitka, 2002).”
Individual differences in third-party interventions: How justice sensitivity shapes altruistic punishment (2011, background): “Moral outrage has been shown to determine retributive responses to norm violations, such as retaliation, punishment, and aggression (e.g., Averill, 1982; Barclay et al., 2005; Feather, 2006; Skitka, 2002).”
Moral Spillovers: The Effect of Moral Violations on Deviant Behavior (2008, background): “…has found no statistical differences in the fairness judgments of pro-life and pro-choice participants following a violation of a MM (Mullen & Skitka, 2006), and has found evidence for the MM effect using representative samples of Americans across a variety of topical domains (Skitka, 2002, 2006).”