Moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and peer bullying among secondary school adolescents

Self-derogation and peer approval of drug abuse amongst male secondary school students

. Substance use among teenagers appears to be more a function of peer approval and peer drug use. This study examined the relationship between adolescents’ self-derogation and their responses to Peers’ Approval of Drug Abuse (PADA) among male secondary school students. In this study, 3000 students 7 th to the 9 th grade secondary schools completed a sel...

Relations between self-serving cognitive distortions, psychopathic traits, and antisocial behavior in a non-clinical sample of adolescents

The aim of the present study was to assess the relative contributions self-serving cognitive distortions and psychopathic traits to adolescent antisocial behavior. Participants were 972 high-school students who completed self-report questionnaires. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that selfserving cognitive distortions, psychopathic traits, as well as their interaction term were...

Running head: BULLYING AND CYBERBULLYING IN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS Bullying and Cyberbullying in Secondary School Students: The role of Moral Disengagement, Hostile Attribution Bias and Outcome Expectancies

If you believe this document infringes copyright then please contact the KAR admin team with the take-down information provided at http://kar.kent.ac.uk/contact.html Citation for published version Pornari, Chrysoula and Wood, Jane L. (2010) Peer and cyber aggression in secondary school students: the role of moral disengagement, hostile attribution bias, and outcome expectancies. Aggressive Beha...

Cognitive Attraction Theory and Moral Judgment

The present article deals with the processes that underpin moral judgment. In the specialized literature, some concepts are proven to be important mechanisms that build up the moral judgment. For instance, intuition, emotion, reasoning, moral rules, deontology and consequentialism. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive framework, which puts together those key concepts in a clear picture. ...

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Judgment*