One hundred and ninety four adults, who
were recruited to participate through a university-based behavioral lab in
the United Kingdom, completed a Web-based survey including measures
of some of the variables within the construct’s nomological network. The
sample was diverse in age (Mage = 25.6, SD = 6.7) and background
(see Table 1 for demographic details). One hundred and sixteen of these
participants also participated subsequently in a second study in the lab.
Participants were paid £5 for completing the Web-based survey and £10
for participating in the lab study.
judgment to select items that created three increasingly shorter measures
of the propensity to morally disengage (a 24-item, 16-item, and 8-item
version). We then compared these three scales’ psychometric properties
and preliminary validity evidence with the goal of determining the most
parsimonious way the construct could be measured without unacceptably
compromising on reliability or validity standards.