Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
30 03 2022
30 03 2022
Historique:
received:
17
06
2021
accepted:
16
03
2022
entrez:
31
3
2022
pubmed:
1
4
2022
medline:
2
4
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Injustice typically involves some people benefitting at the expense of others. An opportunist might then be selectively motivated to amend only the injustice that is harmful to them, while someone more principled would respond consistently regardless of whether they stand to gain or lose. Here, we disentangle such principled and opportunistic motives towards injustice. With a sample of 312 monozygotic- and 298 dizygotic twin pairs (N = 1220), we measured people's propensity to perceive injustice as victims, observers, beneficiaries, and perpetrators of injustice, using the Justice Sensitivity scale. With a biometric approach to factor analysis, that provides increased stringency in inferring latent psychological traits, we find evidence for two substantially heritable factors explaining correlations between Justice Sensitivity facets. We interpret these factors as principled justice sensitivity (h
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pubmed: 35354855
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-09253-2
pii: 10.1038/s41598-022-09253-2
pmc: PMC8967910
doi:
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Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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