Anger at unfairness: is it moral outrage?

By C. Daniel Batson, Chemeitoi Kennedy, Lesley Anne Nord, E. Stocks, D. A. Fleming, Christian M. Marzette, David A. Lishner, Robin E. Hayes, Leah M. Kolchinsky, Tricia Zerger. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology

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What’s Wrong with Morality? (2011, background): “Conducting two experiments that included these three conditions, Batson et al. (2007) found evidence of personal anger and empathic anger, but not of moral outrage.”
The acceptance of responsibility and expressions of regret in organizational apologies after a transgression (2010, background): “As such, if an organization is deemed responsible for the crisis, as is the case with a transgression, a common reaction will be anger toward the organization ( Baston et al. , 2007”
Negative Reviews, Positive Impact: Consumer Empathetic Responding to Unfair Word of Mouth (2020, background): “We draw on previous work showing that empathetic responses are heightened under conditions where unfair outcomes become salient (e.g., Batson et al. 2007; Haidt 2003) and propose that when the consumer perceives a negative review as unfair, this naturally activates empathy toward the firm.”
Temporal Distance and Moral Concerns: Future Morally Questionable Behavior is Perceived as More Wrong and Evokes Stronger Prosocial Intentions (2009, background): “Of relevance for the present research, empathic anger often arises in situations where other people for whom one cares are perceived to be harmed, not only physically but also symbolically, when their rights are violated (Batson et al., 2007; Gutierrez & GinerSorolla, 2007; Rozin et al., 1999).”
Moral emotions as determinants of third-party punishment: Anger, guilt, and the functions of altruistic sanctions (2009, background): “Recent insights clearly show that anger about personal harm is a distinct emotion from empathic anger at witnessing injustice or harm to someone else (Batson et al., 2007).”
Anger and Prosocial Behavior (2014, background): “In the literature on the behavioral consequences of anger, the reader may encounter different terms, such as moral outrage, personal anger, or empathic anger (e.g., Batson et al., 2007).”
Gender differences in vegetarian identity: How men and women construe meatless dieting (2020, background): “Vegetarians with low omnivorous regard, who judge people negatively for eating meat, may grapple with the recurrently induced psychological burden of feeling moral outrage—anger at the violation of a moral standard (Batson et al., 2007)—in a society where their view of eating meat as morally impermi”
When Hostile Consumers Wreak Havoc on Your Brand: The Phenomenon of Consumer Brand Sabotage (2016, background): “This emotion results from the appraisal that a brand behaves in a way that is offensive to decency or morality, especially if moral norms such as fairness, justice, and political correctness have been violated (see also Batson et al. 2007).”