Psychological Mechanism of Moral Hypocrisy:Explanations Based on Dual-process Theory

Moral hypocrisy is a tendency that people think they are more virtuous than others but in fact they could not reach the moral standards which are claimed by themselves.Using the explanation frame of dual-process theory to conclude the psychological mechanism of moral hypocrisy,we found that both the cognitive processes include cognitive bias,construal level theory and moral disengagement,and the motivation factors include self-enhancement,self-deception and moral psychological-license could affect the moral hypocrisy effect,but the interaction of these two processes is not clear.