Adolescents’ moral evaluations and ratings of cyberbullying: The effect of veracity and intentionality behind the event

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Highlights:

• We examined adolescents’ ratings of cyberbullying events depicting false and true stories.

• We studied the impact of participants’ age and their experience with cyberbullying in the evaluation of such events.

• Adolescents evaluate as more negative online situations depicting false stories.

• Younger adolescents have difficulties recognizing intentions underlying online situations.

• Adolescents who have cyberbullied others are less severe than those who have not in their ratings.

摘要

•We examined adolescents’ ratings of cyberbullying events depicting false and true stories.•We studied the impact of participants’ age and their experience with cyberbullying in the evaluation of such events.•Adolescents evaluate as more negative online situations depicting false stories.•Younger adolescents have difficulties recognizing intentions underlying online situations.•Adolescents who have cyberbullied others are less severe than those who have not in their ratings.

论文关键词:Moral evaluation,Cyberbullying,Adolescents

论文评审过程:Available online 14 April 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.03.046