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ERIC Number: EJ953750
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-0193-3973
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College Students' Moral Evaluations of Illegal Music Downloading
Jambon, Marc M.; Smetana, Judith G.
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, v33 n1 p31-39 Jan-Feb 2012
Although unauthorized music downloading is illegal, a majority of college students have downloaded music for free online. Evaluations of illegal music downloading and their association with downloading behavior were examined using social domain theory in a sample of 188 ethnically diverse college students (M[subscript age] = 19.80 years, SD = 1.36, 56% female). All students treated prototypical moral events as moral on a domain classification task. Students treated illegal downloading as a complex moral issue and, less frequently, as a personal issue (but rarely as a conventional issue of law or authority); judgments varied when different concerns regarding the fair price of music and the structure of the music industry were made salient. Greater discrepancies between the actual price of music and what students viewed to be fair were associated with past illegal downloading, while a greater focus on downloading as stealing was associated with abstaining from downloading. (Contains 4 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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