http://popsych.org/do-people-try-to-dishonestly-signal-fairness/ The Internet's Best Evolutionary Psycholo-guy Wed, 03 Jan 2018 01:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://popsych.org/do-people-try-to-dishonestly-signal-fairness/#comment-920 Morality | Pearltrees Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:26:11 +0000 http://popsych.org/?p=2358#comment-920 [...] Do People Try To Dishonestly Signal Fairness? | Pop Psychology BPS Research Digest: Things you might want to know about people who believe in pure evil Psychologists have devised two new scales for assessing people's belief in pure evil and pure good - characteristics they say have important links with broader attitudes towards altruism and the use of violence. Russell Webster and Donald Saucier first demonstrated the validity and reliability of their scales with over two hundred undergrad students. The belief in pure evil questionnaire contains 22 items including "Some people are just pure evil" and "people who commit evil acts always mean to harm innocent people", each rated on a sliding 7-point scale of agreement. The belief in pure good questionnaire has 28 items including "There is such a thing as a truly selfless/altruistic person" and "selfless people help anyone in need, even their rivals." Scores on the two scales are entirely uncorrelated suggesting they are measuring distinct constructs. Scores were also stable over time, based on re-retesting a subsample of participants two months later. PsycNET - Display Record [...] [...] Do People Try To Dishonestly Signal Fairness? | Pop Psychology BPS Research Digest: Things you might want to know about people who believe in pure evil Psychologists have devised two new scales for assessing people's belief in pure evil and pure good – characteristics they say have important links with broader attitudes towards altruism and the use of violence. Russell Webster and Donald Saucier first demonstrated the validity and reliability of their scales with over two hundred undergrad students. The belief in pure evil questionnaire contains 22 items including "Some people are just pure evil" and "people who commit evil acts always mean to harm innocent people", each rated on a sliding 7-point scale of agreement. The belief in pure good questionnaire has 28 items including "There is such a thing as a truly selfless/altruistic person" and "selfless people help anyone in need, even their rivals." Scores on the two scales are entirely uncorrelated suggesting they are measuring distinct constructs. Scores were also stable over time, based on re-retesting a subsample of participants two months later. PsycNET – Display Record [...]

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