Showing papers by "Chi-Yue Chiu published in 1992"

The effects of intentionality and validation on individual and collective responsibility attribution among Hong Kong Chinese.

Abstract: Two experiments were conducted to test the effects of intentionality and validation on moral evaluation, causal attribution, personal and collective responsibility attribution, and justice judgment among Hong Kong junior business executives or management assistants. Based on ratings of scenarios, the results revealed that both the intentionality and validation of an act were significant determinants of moral evaluations and dispositional attribution. In both experiments, responsibility for the protagonist's misdeed was generalized to members of the protagonist's collective. The target (to whom collective responsibility was attributed) varied with the context in which the act was carried out.

A Study of the Comparative Structure of Guilt and Shame in a Chinese Society

Abstract: On the basis of previous theoretical and empirical analyses of the comparative structures of guilt and shame, the authors hypothesized that antecedent condition (personal inadequacy vs. moral norm violation), audience presence, and personal responsibility attribution would distinguish shame from guilt. Although the subject population was Hong Kong Chinese, evidence from previous studies suggests that the comparative structures of guilt and shame are quite similar across cultures. The subjects were asked to recall either a guilt or a shame incident, and their responses were then coded into the predictor variables. The results of the study indicated that guilt was most likely to emerge when individuals had violated a moral norm and held themselves responsible for their conduct. In contrast, shame emerged more frequently when subjects felt personally inadequate than when they had violated moral norms. Moreover, when a guilt incident was reported, an audience was rarely mentioned, whereas subjects wh...