Does believing something to be fiction allow a form of moral licencing or a 'fictive pass' in understanding others' actions?

However, that for the ‘Fiction’ condition is highly significant (r 2 = 0.388; F 1,39 = 24.75, p < 0.0001).

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The only correlation that even approached significance was that between enjoyment and the estimated frequency of real-life murders in Canada for participants in the ‘Real’ condition (Pearson correlation: r 45 = 0.28, p = 0.06; all other p > 0.24), but this was in the opposite of the predicted direction (i.e., lower perceived frequency of murders was associated with lower enjoyment).

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