Moral behavior in sport

Moral emotions and moral behavior.

Moral emotions represent a key element of our human moral apparatus, influencing the link between moral standards and moral behavior. This chapter reviews current theory and research on moral emotions. We first focus on a triad of negatively valenced "self-conscious" emotions-shame, guilt, and embarrassment. As in previous decades, much research remains focused on shame and guilt. We review cur...

Exposure to moral relativism compromises moral behavior

The Influence of Religiosity on Moral Judgment in Sport

The creation of a much clearer view on religiosity-morality relations was the basic goal of the present study. Another goal was to examine the impact of factors (gender, type of sports) that possibly effect the formation of moral content judgment and parts of religiosity within a sport environment. The participants were 258 athletes of the Christian Orthodox faith (180 males and 78 females). Al...

Development and validation of the moral disengagement in sport scale.

A sport-specific measure of moral disengagement was developed in 2 studies. In Study 1, a 59-item questionnaire was developed and tested with 308 athletes from 5 team sports. A series of confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) testing different models suggested the model that best fitted the data had 6 first-order factors that could be represented by 1 second-order factor. Study 2 involved 305 athle...

Uncanny Moral Behavior

In trying to imitate human moral behavior, will we venture into the moral uncanny valley where the decisions appear superficially moral and yet disgust us? The uncanny valley describes a feeling of eeriness and ominousness which accompanies near-human like appearances and behavior in robots. As the sophistication of physical and virtual actroids has increased, under controlled circumstances the...