Friendships fulfill needs for intimacy, belonging, and support yet have rarely been the focus of forgiveness research. In this study, we explored forgiveness, unforgiveness, young adults’ experiences transgressions in same-sex friendships ( N = 407). Our results suggest that, although unforgiveness share important antecedents (e.g., apology status, perceived remorse, barriers to forgiveness), t...

This study is a near exact replication of an experiment by Smith et al. (2001) that explores how individuals respond to the need to share bad news about an IT project. The replication results reinforce the crux of the original findings, which identify that when individuals think that negative information should be reported, they feel a greater responsibility to do so, but only to internal sourc...

• An investigation of the effect of embodied guilt on intergroup relations. • Holding a prototypical guilt pose enhances feelings of personal & collective guilt. • Embodied guilt leads to greater reparative intentions for personal/ingroup misdeeds. • Expressed guilt mediates the relation between posture and reparative intentions. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Research demonstrates that ...

Abstract This article compares Grotius’s treatments of liability for wrongdoing in natural law and the Holland to emphasise conceptual centrality fault both, places analyses their historical context by tracing treatment strict those intellectual traditions upon which he drew. It focuses particular on formulation obligations quasi ex maleficio show how absence rendered obligation something other...

In three experiments, we examine whether individuals cheat more when other individuals can benefit from their cheating (they do) and when the number of beneficiaries of wrongdoing is larger (they do). Our results indicate that people use moral flexibility in justifying their selfinterested actions when such actions benefit others in addition to the self. Namely, our findings suggest that when o...

Hypocrisy occurs when people fail to practice what they preach. Four experiments document the hypocrisy-by-association effect, whereby failing to practice what an organization preaches can make an employee seem hypocritical and invite moral condemnation. Participants judged employees more harshly for the same transgression when it was inconsistent with ethical values the employees’ organization...

Recent social science research suggests that many if not most judgments about criminal liability and punishment for serious wrongdoing are intuitional rather than reasoned. Further, such intuitions of justice are nuanced and widely shared, even though they concern matters that seem quite complex and subjective. While people may debate the source of these intuitions, it seems clear that, whateve...

Using data from systematic social observations of police officers in Cincinnati, Ohio, this study examines the influence of situational characteristics of police–suspect encounters on arrest outcomes with a focus on the effects of citizen race. In several ways, the findings are consistent with much of the extant research in this area. Regardless of suspect race, legal variables like offense ser...

Successful legal action brings the defendant to account, and provides the opportunity for remedy, whether in the form of compensation to a person who has suffered, punishment of the wrongdoer, or the granting of injunctions (such as an order that a person or corporation refrain from certain conduct or that it undertake corrective action to set its wrongdoing right). Ultimately, it is litigation...

Conflict of interest in medical publishing exists when a participant’s private interests compete with his or her responsibilities to the scientific community, readers, and society. While conflict of interest is common, it reaches the level of concern when “a reasonable observer might wonder if the individual’s behavior or judgment was motivated by his or her competing interests”1. Having a comp...