How to distinguish between an honest mistake and intentional deception, explains swhitbo
Everyone’s committed a so-called honest mistake, in which you engage in some form of less than reputable behavior but for no other reason than that you, well, made a mistake. Perhaps you’ve sent a company an online payment for a service they performed and typed in “$50” instead of “$60” on your smartphone app. You know that you meant to pay the right amount, so your error wasn’t due to a desire to cheat or get away with something.
Indeed, when you’re dealing with someone whose mistake like this might seem forgivable, there’s an inner metric that you might try to apply before deciding on its ultimate honesty. According to Maastricht University’s Gianna Lois and Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz’s Michèle Wessa , everyday life is full of examples where morally ambiguous contexts lead to trivial acts of dishonesty” .
Another contributor to the individual’s tendency to behave dishonestly comes from the ways that people rationalize their own unethical behavior. Again, the more ambiguous the social norms, the more this is likely to happen. The so-called self-serving justifications you may engage in after behaving dishonestly stem from your desire to see yourself in a positive light.
The current pandemic has created what’s undoubtedly the type of ambiguous moral situation the authors studied. Many governments count on warnings to work in trying to get citizens to follow COVID-related facemask, social distancing, and quarantining guidelines. Yet, as you undoubtedly know, these warnings do not consistently have any teeth to them, creating a situation filled with descriptive norm ambiguity.
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