Abstract It is commonly accepted that non-hypocrisy a condition of blaming, and it moral condition. This paper proposes an alternative, epistemic, view blaming: knowledge necessary for with the added provides (motivating) reason action – sufficient. First argued knowing blamee wrong blaming. Second, shown phenomenon hypocritical blaming extends to circumstances not involving judgment (such as s...

In the paper we are analyzing the Polish ART market. It can be noticed that the lack of legal regulation has resulted in many discrepancies among the policies adopted by various ART agencies. The social acceptance of ART procedures available mostly in private clinics led to growing commercialization of the Polish ART market. Additionally, the language of gift and altruistic rhetoric that are ov...

Asbestos is a lethal and naturally occurring group of minerals that has brought death and misery to people worldwide. Due to its good tensile strength and resistance to damage, asbestos became extremely popular throughout the early 20th century, and, in many less wealthy nations, remains so today, where it has several uses including strengthening cement and prolonging the life of road surfaces....

In Western culture, there appears to be widespread endorsement of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which stresses equality and freedom). But do people really apply their equality values equally, or are their principles and application systematically discrepant, resulting in equality hypocrisy? The present study, conducted with a representative national sample of adults in...

In school bullying, witnesses play a fundamental role because their defensive reactions can stop bullying situations. However, great majority of remain passive despite prodefense personal beliefs. To address this gap between witnesses’ beliefs and behaviors, we developed tested two social psychology strategies, namely, the induced hypocrisy implementation intention. an experimental longitudinal...

Positioning moral motivations within the framework provided by Schwartz’ (1992) values theory, we ran three dictator game studies (total N = 256) investigating moral integrity and moral hypocrisy. We adapted Batson’s (et al., 1997; et al., 1999; et al., 2002) landmark research design into the experimental economics laboratory (Study 1), and showed that the behavioral inconsistency – out of 64 d...