Abaixo
resumo de recente artigo de investigadores dos EUA que ajuda a perceber porque
é que por exemplo muitos políticos assobiam ao cochicho (famosa expressão
utilizada pelo Presidente Marcelo quando em tempos vestiu o fato de comentador
dominical residente na TVI) sempre que alguns dos seus amigos são apanhados com
a boca na botija.
“Across
a series of ten studies involving a total of almost 3,000 participants…examined
how people say they would respond if someone close to them were to commit a
crime….Participants were more likely to respond that they would lie to the
police officer when they imagined that someone close to them had committed the
crime….And, worryingly, the effect was strongest when the crime was at the
severe end of the scale….doing so allows a person to
simultaneously (a) maintain their self-image as a morally upstanding individual and
(b) preserve and even enhance the close relationship….These findings could explain why, time and again,
we hear of high profile figures who have been committing horrific crimes for
decades, aided by the silence of their close friends and family.”https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167219873485
