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...

Toward the end of the 1770s, a poet writing at the request of a powerful Buddhist monk on the island we now know as Sri Lanka juxtaposed four images of Lankan Buddhist life. The first, with which he described the time before his patron’s monastic order came into being, was an image of darkness, hypocrisy, and delusion. It described a time in which, according to the poet, Buddhist monks betrayed...

• In five bargaining games, proposers could blame unfair proposals on a coin flip. • Responders did not believe that proposers actually let the coin decide. • Responders and third parties were less punitive when the coin was blamed. • People generally refrain from punishing if guilt cannot be proved beyond doubt. • Unwillingness to punish when in doubt could explain the prevalence of hypocrisy....

This article considers the non-aggressive aftermath of an alleged iconoclasm in a residential neighbourhood Kanpur. The ‘iconoclasts’ were recent converts to Christianity who attempting mark their departure from Hinduism by dismantling deity tiles on house. Despite indignation this caused among Hindu neighbours, not much ensued. While lack escalation may be easy explain given local circumstance...