Conceptions of good and evil in Russian students

The authors argue that Russian students' conceptions of good and evil are vague, without a clearly marked division between the former and the latter. The authors make two principal conclusions: 1) more often than not students link good to rendering help or making sacrifices, but even a violation of rules may be treated as good when somebody profits from it; 2) one and the same action is assessed as the least good when the assessor is not personally involved in the situation (a neutral social position), and the most good when it is performed by the assessor (the performer's position).