"Yes, It's Wrong but I Can Still Bully You!" Peer Bullies-Victims' Views of Entitlement

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Twelve
  In Roundtable Session: Moral Development and Education Within Schools and Organizations (Table 10)

Abstract

This presentation looks at the complexity of persons’ judgments of social matters and interpersonal dynamics in terms of what is considered morally right versus wrong as well as what is socially regulated versus under own discretion. Previous studies support the similarities in the ways people distinguish morality from virtuous acts. People judge moral transgression to be definitively wrong, while virtuous transgression (e.g., lying) situational and justifiable. This morality-virtues distinction is found across social diversities including personality differences (e.g., aggression and passivity). Based on the previous study with adolescent peer bullies-victims, this presentation further analyzes the data to focus on the differences in perception, between the two, that could well affect their actual moral decisions in a real life.

Author

• Yuki Hasebe
  Presenting Author