The Influence Of The Presence Andquantity Of Strangers In And Outsidegroups On Moral Hypocrisy

Objective: In view of the endless moral decay events in the society,scholars had paid attention to the causes that affected the occurrence of individual moral behavior.Current studies had suggested that shame could predict the future behavior of individual morality,because shame itself was one of the contents of moral emotion.On the basis of previous studies,this study used the positive task allocation paradigm to explore the influence of the presence and number of strangers in both internal and external groups on individual moral hypocrisy.Whether the sense of shame played a mediating role in the individual’s moral hypocrisy in the presence of both internal and external groups of strangers was also explored.Methods: The subjects of this study were college students.In the experiment,the subjects first completed Tajfel’s false task of point estimation,and then used positive task allocation paradigm and typical shame event materials to measure individual moral hypocrisy with the number of coin Tossers and the number of positive tasks assigned to themselves and others as dependent variables.The first experiment was designed by using 2(stranger identity: inner / outer group)x 2(stranger number: 2 / 5).The second experiment focused on the emotional experience of shame,and examined whether shame mediated the moral hypocrisy of strangers in the presence of internal and external groups through the 2x2 experimental design.Results:(1)In the presence of strangers from both internal and external groups,there was no difference in the choice of assignment tasks between men and women.(2)The proportion of men and women from both internal and external groups choosing to toss coins in the presence of group strangers is significantly higher than that in the presence of group strangers.(3)Compared with the presence of strangers in the internal group,the proportion of individuals allocating positive tasks to themselves is significantly higher in the presence of strangers in the external group than in the internal group.(4)In the presence of two or five strangers,the proportion of the internal group choosing to toss coins was significantly higher than that of the external group choosing to toss coins.(5)In the presence of five strangers,the proportion of individuals assigning positive tasks to others is significant.(6)Shame mediates the moral hypocrisy of strangers both internal and external.Conclusion: With the increase of the presence and number of strangers in the internal group,the subjects woulf maintained their good image by moderately reducing the income of their own interests,while in the presence of strangers in the external group,they would not reduce their own interests;strangers in the internal group would have more advantages than strangers in the suppression of individual moral hypocrisy;shame induction would reduce the individual.The occurrence of moral hypocrisy confirmed that shame could exert a positive influence on the guidance and restraint of interpersonal relationships.