Tepe Çomoğlu, Beyza

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Moral Framing Effects on Environmental Attitudes: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Feinberg and Willer (2013)
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, 2025) Cavdar, Dilara; Tepe, Beyza; Saribay, S. Adil; Yilmaz, Onurcan
This study investigates the relationship between moral framing, political orientation, and pro-environmental attitudes, replicating and extending Feinberg and Willer (2013) in a non-Western context. Using a Turkish-speaking sample (N = 699), we examined the effectiveness of care and sanctity-framed messages and the moderating role of actively open-minded thinking (AOT). Our findings partially replicated the original study. Sanctity framing increased pro-environmental attitudes among conservatives, while care framing had no significant effect. Political conservatism was negatively associated with pro-environmental attitudes, confirming prior findings. Exploratory analyses revealed that AOT moderated the effects of sanctity framing on environmental attitudes, with individuals low or moderate in AOT being more responsive. Both care and sanctity frames increased environmental donation, addressing the intention-behavior gap. However, cultural nuances, such as the collectivist orientation of the sample, may have influenced the care frame's ineffectiveness. The study highlights the importance of cultural context in moral framing research and underscores the need for context-specific climate communication strategies.
The Relational Nature of Punishment: Responses To Close Versus Distant Others' Moral Transgressions
(Sage Publications Inc, 2026) Tepe, Beyza; Faber, Nadira S.
How do people respond when a close other, as opposed to a distant other, commits a moral transgression against a third person? Across five preregistered experiments (total N = 2,170), supplemented by pilot studies, we find that people navigate punishment differently depending on relational closeness: they seek less punishment by authorities (institutional punishment) for close others but impose more punishment by themselves (relational punishment) and are more likely to confront the perpetrator directly (Experiments 1-5). Moreover, transgressions of close others elicit both other-blaming and self-blaming emotions, and they prompt individuals to adopt both victim and perpetrator roles (Experiments 2-5). These effects intensify with increasing relational closeness (Experiment 3) and persist across transgressions of varying moral and criminal severity (Experiment 4).
How Does Type of Moral Responsibility Affect the Extent of the Moral Circle? The Influence of Relational Models
(Sage Publications Inc, 2025) Sunar, Diane; Cesur, Sevim; Tepe, Beyza; Piyale, Zeynep Ecem; Hill, Charles T.
The "moral circle" defines entities toward which a person feels moral responsibility. Relational Models Theory (RMT) proposes four basic relational models (communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing), each with distinct moral motivations. This study applies RMT to define different types of moral responsibility: caring, guiding, obeying/deferring, ensuring equality, or equity. We proposed that the type of moral responsibility may alter a judge's rating of degree of responsibility, affecting the entity's placement within the moral circle. Linear mixed model analyses of responsibility ratings toward various human and other targets across six closeness levels confirmed that relational models significantly affected felt responsibility ratings. Specifically, asking about Equality Matching responsibility (assuring equal rights and treatment) led to higher moral responsibility ratings than other definitions (Communal Sharing, Authority Ranking, Market Pricing), even for negatively judged targets like rapists. The two cultures tested (US and T & uuml;rkiye) differed in average responsibility ratings for various targets, but culture did not interact with Relational Models. Differences in moral inclusiveness are interpreted through relational model characteristics, such as boundedness and rule orientation. In addition to individual, situational, cultural differences, relational models between judge and target also affect extent of the moral circle.

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology	1
Journal of Environmental Psychology	1
Social Psychological and Personality Science	1

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