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A Lack Of Material Resources Causes Harsher Moral Judgments, Marko Pitesa, Stefan Thau
A Lack Of Material Resources Causes Harsher Moral Judgments, Marko Pitesa, Stefan Thau
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
In the research presented here, we tested the idea that a lack of material resources (e.g., low income) causes people to make harsher moral judgments because a lack of material resources is associated with a lower ability to cope with the effects of others' harmful behavior. Consistent with this idea, results from a large cross-cultural survey (Study 1) showed that both a chronic (due to low income) and a situational (due to inflation) lack of material resources were associated with harsher moral judgments. The effect of inflation was stronger for low-income individuals, whom inflation renders relatively more vulnerable. In a …