Moral hypocrisy in moral dilemma

Moral hypocrisy is a phenomenon in which individuals evaluating other people´s moral transgressions differ from their evaluations of the same transgressions enacted by themselves. The present study examined whether there is a moral hypocrisy when participants take different roles in moral dilemma. We found that although participants´ decisions were no different when they taking different roles in moral dilemmas, the participants in the role of a protagonist took more time to make a decision. These results demonstrated that there may be an implicit moral hypocrisy in moral dilemmas and supported the view that it is the volitionally-guided justifications that results i n hypocrisy.