Role Of Compassion And In Group Preference In Acceptability Of Lies

The Role of Compassion and In-group Preference in Acceptability of lies
Abstract
In this study, there was focus on the roles of compassion and in-group preference in acceptability of lies between men and women in-groups. Compassion and empathy influence how people respond to in-group and out-group members, with greater preference for in-group members. It was hypothesized that empathy influenced how people to accept lies by women than lies by men. The 2 × 2 factorial independent groups design was used with the gender of the target person and the type of background information in the scenario being the independent variables, while the mean acceptability of lying is the dependent variable. Gender was a significant factor in preference for acceptability of lies with people more likely to accept lies made by women, and consistent with research that women have higher automatic in-group preference. However, contrary to our hypothesis there was no significant difference between the participants’ rating of the acceptability of the lie regardless the type of the background information. There was also there is no statistically significant interaction effect between the two independent variables.
The Role of Compassion and In-group Preference in Acceptability of Deception
Compassion is the capacity to identify with the feelings of another person and respond to them with an appropriate emotion, which is considered to entail the components of cognitive and emotional empathy. While cognitive compassion involves the ability to understand the thinking of another person, its emotional counterpart requires the capability to experience a feeling that is similar to that of other individuals. Gender differences in compassion exist and often arise due to the reluctance of men to report empathy as opposed to a difference in capacity. The present study will investigate the role of empathy in in-group and out-group acceptability with relation to lying. Research will be done to address the question “how does empathy affect the acceptability of a deceitful act committed by a man compared to a woman when observed by a woman?” The study will focus on lying as the deceitful act.
Empathy is believed to be an automatic response that people cannot avoid (Zaki, 2014). As a motivating factor for people, empathy will influence the way people evaluate a person. Lupoli, Jampol, and Oveis (2017) examined how bitterly people graded poorly written papers with the recognition of the passing away of a family member when compared to having information about a shopping trip. The study indicated that people were more empathetic towards writers confronting a loss as opposed to when informed about a shopping trip. Since the study will mainly focus on lying behavior, we also looked at some studies that suggested the patterns of how people evaluate lying. In their study to determine the ethicality raying of deception when the fabricator is judging themselves versus an observer’s opinion, Hildreth and Anderson (2018) concluded that liars tend to rate their deeds as more moral than observers who watch them lie. All these studies established that compassion, as a critical sensation that people cannot ignore due to its associated automatic resp...