- PII
- S0205-95920000392-8-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S20000392-8-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Abstract
- Moral attitudes of adults to outgroup members (wild and domestic animals and aliens) have been studied. Respondents (N = 59) in conversation with experimenter orally solved moral dilemmas and simultaneously played computer game by means of which short-term stress was induced in the experimental group. Moral dilemmas are histories in which ingroup member (human being) does harm to an outgroup member taking away vitally necessary resource in order to raise the level of own comfort. The comparison of the present research data with the previous ones made on children reveals statistically significant regressing to early “childish” forms of behavior in situation of “moral choice”, namely the preference by adults for the strategy of supporting ingroup member even if he is acting unfairly. The results are discussed by the authors from the position of system-evolutionary approach and are connected with system dedifferentiation that is reversible increasing of low-differentiated systems to support behavior in stressful situation. The importance of the results is discussed in the context of general biological and evolutionary views.
- Keywords
- Moral attitude to "strangers", stress, regression, moral dilemmas, system-evolutionary approach, system differentiation, system dedifferentiation.
- Date of publication
- 13.12.2025
- Year of publication
- 2025
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 708
RAS Social ScienceПсихологический журнал Psikhologicheskii zhurnal
- ISSN (Print) 0205-9592
- ISSN (Online) 3034-588X
ATTITUDE TO OUTGROUP MEMBERS IN STRESS: SYSTEM DEDIFFERENTIATION
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