Justice and Immigration: The Effect of Moral Exclusion

Numerous media news items suggest on a daily basis that people tend to use harsher criteria when they judge immigrants than members of their own in-group. In the present research project, we were interested in studying individual justice judgments of a violation of a law by an Italian (in-group) or...

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Autores principales:	Stefano Passini, Paola Villano
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Lenguaje:	EN ES
Publicado:	Universidad de San Buenaventura 2018
Materias:	justice moral exclusion double standards immigration intergroup conflict Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6e06b350e7674822b70bbbb83353018e2021-11-17T02:21:38ZJustice and Immigration: The Effect of Moral Exclusion2011-20842011-7922https://doaj.org/article/6e06b350e7674822b70bbbb83353018e2018-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/3262https://doaj.org/toc/2011-2084https://doaj.org/toc/2011-7922 Numerous media news items suggest on a daily basis that people tend to use harsher criteria when they judge immigrants than members of their own in-group. In the present research project, we were interested in studying individual justice judgments of a violation of a law by an Italian (in-group) or an immigrant (out-group) member and the influence of moral exclusion processes on the assessment. In particular, we examined whether those people who tend to exclude out-groups from their scope of justice will give such biased judgments and will adopt double standards, while inclusive people will not. A total of 255 people evaluated the seriousness of a crime in two different law-breaking scenarios in which the offender’s and the victim’s nationalities were systematically changed (either Italian or Romanian). Moreover, participants completed a scale measuring the moral inclusion/exclusion of other social groups. As hypothesized, participants who tended to exclude some groups from their moral community judged the Romanian more harshly than the Italian culprit. On the contrary, those people that tended to have a more inclusive moral community did not show any difference in evaluation. In conclusion, the present research highlights the importance of considering the effect of moral inclusion/exclusion processes on the evaluation of justice events, especially in an intergroup context. Stefano PassiniPaola VillanoUniversidad de San Buenaventuraarticlejusticemoral exclusiondouble standardsimmigrationintergroup conflictPsychologyBF1-990ENESInternational Journal of Psychological Research, Vol 11, Iss 1 (2018)
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description	Numerous media news items suggest on a daily basis that people tend to use harsher criteria when they judge immigrants than members of their own in-group. In the present research project, we were interested in studying individual justice judgments of a violation of a law by an Italian (in-group) or an immigrant (out-group) member and the influence of moral exclusion processes on the assessment. In particular, we examined whether those people who tend to exclude out-groups from their scope of justice will give such biased judgments and will adopt double standards, while inclusive people will not. A total of 255 people evaluated the seriousness of a crime in two different law-breaking scenarios in which the offender’s and the victim’s nationalities were systematically changed (either Italian or Romanian). Moreover, participants completed a scale measuring the moral inclusion/exclusion of other social groups. As hypothesized, participants who tended to exclude some groups from their moral community judged the Romanian more harshly than the Italian culprit. On the contrary, those people that tended to have a more inclusive moral community did not show any difference in evaluation. In conclusion, the present research highlights the importance of considering the effect of moral inclusion/exclusion processes on the evaluation of justice events, especially in an intergroup context.
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title	Justice and Immigration: The Effect of Moral Exclusion
title_short	Justice and Immigration: The Effect of Moral Exclusion
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Justice and Immigration: The Effect of Moral Exclusion

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