Furthermore, only 1 out of the 16 said that assigning oneself to the positive task was morally correct. Yet even these 16 participants rated the morality of their assignment in the middle of the 9-point scale (4.38), which was significantly lower than the 8.25 rating for the 4 participants who assigned the other participant to the positive consequences task (Batson et al. 1997: 1340).