{"id":53,"date":"2022-06-06T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2022\/06\/06\/people-who-claim-grievances-more-likely-to-lie-and-cheat\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:00:58","slug":"people-who-claim-grievances-more-likely-to-lie-and-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2022\/06\/06\/people-who-claim-grievances-more-likely-to-lie-and-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"People who claim grievances more likely to lie and cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/geneticliteracyproject.org\/2021\/04\/09\/playing-victim-people-who-claim-grievances-more-likely-to-lie-and-cheat-but-victim-status-comes-with-evolutionary-benefits\/#Echobox=1647078470\">As summarized by the Genetic Literacy Project<\/a>:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Newly published research indicates that people who more frequently signal their victimhood (whether real, exaggerated, or false) are more likely to lie and cheat for material gain and denigrate others as a means to get ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars from the Immorality Lab at the University of British Columbia created a victim-signaling scale that measures how frequently people tell others of the disadvantages, challenges, and misfortunes they suffer. Those who scored higher on this victim-signaling scale were found to be more likely to virtue-signal\u2014to outwardly display signs of virtuous moral character\u2014while simultaneously placing less importance on their own moral identity. In other words, victim signalers were more interested in <em>looking<\/em> morally good but less interested in <em>being<\/em> morally good than those who less frequently signal their victimhood.<\/p>\n<p><i>Just something to think about.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summarized by the Genetic Literacy Project: Newly published research indicates that people who more frequently signal their victimhood (whether real, exaggerated, or false) are more likely to lie and cheat for material gain and denigrate others as a means to get ahead. Scholars from the Immorality Lab at the University of British Columbia created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-causes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}