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| The effects of compassion and injustice on third-party punishment：Mediating role of moral outrage |
| LI Huijuan, CHEN Yanan, XING Xiaoli |
| Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004 |
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Abstract In this study, questionnaire and situational experiment were used to investigate the effects of compassion and injustice on third-party punishment and the mediating role of moral outrage. Study 1 examined the influence of compassion on third-party punishment in real situation. The results showed that compassion was positively correlated with third-party punishment, and the higher the degree of injustice, the higher the degree of compassion, third-party punishment and the correlation coefficient. In study 2, the effect of compassion and injustice on third-party punishment was investigated by situational experiment. The results showed that both compassion and injustice significantly increased moral outrage and third-party punishment, and moral outrage played the full mediating role between compassion and third-party punishment at both level of injustices. Study 3 examined the effects of compassion and injustice on third-party punishment in animal abuse situations, the results showed that compassion for abuse animals and injustice also increased moral outrage and third-party punishment, and moral outrage partially mediated the effect of compassion and third-party punishment at both level of injustices. In conclusion： （1） The degree of injustice affected the third-party punishment; （2） When it was impossible to help the victim, compassion intensified the third-party punishment inspired by injustice; （3） compassion intensified moral outrage and thus served as a magnifier of third-party punishment, which is consistent with just deserts theory.
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