The Influence Of Violator’s Intentions And Idiosyncratic Information On Third-party Intervention

Fairness is of great significance to the development of human society,and when faced with unfair events,even third parties who are unrelated to interests are willing to pay a certain cost to maintain fairness.Third-party fairness is third-party intervention,including third-party punishment and third-party compensation.Third-party punishment refers to the behavior of an unrelated third party that punishes the violator even if it loses personal interests in order to maintain fairness and social norms after witnessing the unfair behavior of others.Third-party compensation is directed at the victim and compensates the victim.In recent years,however,with the recurrence of moral slippage,people have become skeptical of doing good.And,people tend to show more blame or punishment for violators,but less praise or compensation for victims or benevolent deeds.The existing literature search results also mainly focus on the research on third-party punishment,and there are few studies on third-party compensation,and its emotional mechanism needs to be further deepened.This paper uses the situational story method to conduct two studies to explore the influence of violators’ intentions on third-party punishment and third-party compensation behavior,the mediating role of moral emotions and the moderating role of idiosyncratic information of violators.It is found that the willingness of the third party to punish behavior is more dependent on the intention of the violator,and in the process of the violator’s intention to affect the third-party punishment,the violator’s focused emotion and self-focused emotion play a partial mediating role,and at the same time,the three dimensions of moral emotions: violator’s focused emotion,victim-focused emotion,and self-focused emotion can positively predict the intention of third-party punishment and third-party compensation behavior.This also shows that third-party intervention is not entirely morally motivated,but also influenced by self-interest.The main effect of trait information is significant,indicating that people may make unfair choices because of stereotypes when making moral judgments.