Deconstructing moral character judgments.

Humans Intention Judgment Morals Social Perception
Agency Dyadic morality Mind perception Morality Social identity

Journal

Current opinion in psychology
ISSN: 2352-2518
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Psychol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101649136

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
02 2022
Historique:
received: 24 06 2021
revised: 09 07 2021
accepted: 13 07 2021
pubmed: 22 8 2021
medline: 19 4 2022
entrez: 21 8 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

People often make judgments of others' moral character - an inferred moral essence that presumably predicts moral behavior. We first define moral character and explore why people make character judgments before outlining three key elements that drive character judgments: behavior (good vs. bad, norm violations, and deliberation), mind (intentions, explanations, capacities), and identity (appearance, social groups, and warmth). We also provide taxonomy of moral character that goes beyond simply good vs. evil. Drawing from the theory of dyadic morality, we outline a two-dimensional triangular space of character judgments (valence and strength/agency), with three key corners - heroes, villains, and victims. Varieties of perceived moral character include saints and demons, strivers/sinners and opportunists, the nonmoral, virtuous, and culpable victims, and pure victims.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.07.008 PMID: 34418790
pubmed: 34418790
pii: S2352-250X(21)00107-X
doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.07.008
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

205-212

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Conflict of interest statement Nothing declared.

Auteurs

Rachel Hartman (R)

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA.

Will Blakey (W)

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA.

Kurt Gray (K)

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA. Electronic address: kurtjgray@gmail.com.

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