The Influences Of Role-taking On The Negative-Feedback Mechanism Of Male Offenders' Moral Self-regulation

Negative feedback mechanism of moral self-regulation refers to previous moral behavior a have the opposite effect on the subsequent moral behavior.Negative-feedback mechanism of moral self-regulating effect includes moral cleansing and moral licensing. Moral cleansing suggests that when individuals'actually moral self-perception is lower than one's ideal image, there will be less irregularities or more pro-social behavior; moral licensing effect suggests that when one's actual moral self-perception is threatened by his/her past behaviors, there will be less pro-social behavior or even more morally aggressive behaviors.Currently researches of these two effects of the conclusions are mainly for the negative feedback mechanisms of moral self-regulation and do not have a universal adaptability and consequence in different groups, for example, the domestic research found little moral license effect. At the same time the existing research shows that inmates pro-social behavior tendency, self-control, respect for ethics awareness and environmental adaptability, etc. are different from the general population. Therefore, this paper attempts to explore the negative feedback mechanism of moral self-regulation embodied in pro-social and behavior of violation. At the same time, through the introduction of self-related variables and differences in the role of others stand differences in the role of differences, to further explore the psychological distance of inmates negative feedback mechanism of.The purpose of this study was to investigate the how would negative-feedback mechanism of moral self-regulating affect male offenders'pro-social and moral aggressive behavior, and by introducing the factor of self-other discrepancy, this article aimed to investigate the effects of negative-feedback mechanism on male offenders' decisions when making behavioral decisions for others. The first research tried to understand the effects of the negative-feedback mechanism on the different populations (offenders& ordinary). And the applicability of the mechanism between different groups was discussed.Secondly, previous studies about decision-making found that, due to the impact of psychological distance, different cognitive paths were taken and decision-making tendencies were differentiated when making decisions for selves and for others.Therefore, this paper proposed Study 2tried to better understand the differences of offenders' negative feedback mechanism on pro-social and moral transgressive behaviors between making decisions for themselves and for others. According to relative studies about construal-level theory and perceptive-taking, it was known that individuals would make a decision for others yet from two distinct perspectives:one is from his/hers own perspective and another is taking the others' perspective. This paper thus propose Study 3 to further understand how would the difference in perspective-taking while making behavioral decisions for others would affect the role of the negative feedback mechanism on offenders'pro-social and moral transgressive behavior.Through the three studies mentioned above, this paper had come to its main conclusions:(1) offenders expressed moral licensing effect in moral transgressive behaviors.(2) For self and for others the task of pro-social behavior, inmates exhibit moral purification effect, but the study found no effect of moral licensing effect; irregularities in the mission, when their own moral decisions purifying effect did not occur, but in when others decision-making, the emergence of moral purification effect.(3) When making decisions for others, offenders expressed moral licensing on pro-social behavior while taking others'perspective; and moral cleaning was detected under other kinds of conditions.