A5053551350- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Social Media and Politics
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Discrimination and Equality Law
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Free Will and Agency
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- International Law and Human Rights
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
Jones College
2020-2024
Rice University
2020-2024
Northwestern University
2017-2019
Kellogg's (Canada)
2018
University of Southern California
2016-2017
Southern California University for Professional Studies
2016
Leiden University
2014-2015
When do people see self-control as a moral issue? We hypothesize that the group-focused "binding" values of Loyalty/betrayal, Authority/subversion, and Purity/degradation play particularly important role in this moralization process. Nine studies provide support for prediction. First, goals (e.g., losing weight, saving money) is more strongly associated with endorsing binding than individualizing (Care/harm, Fairness/cheating). Second, mediate effect other predictors moralization, including...
We propose that power fundamentally changes why leaders punish and we develop a theoretical model specifies how this occurs. Specifically, argue increases the reliance on deterrence, but not just deserts, as punishment motive relate to fostering distrustful mindset. tested our in 9 studies using different instantiations of power, measurements manipulations distrust while measuring motives recommended punishments across number situations. These demonstrate fosters hereby both deterrence...
Despite sharing conceptual overlap, morality and self-control research have led largely separate lives. In this article, we highlight neglected connections between these major areas of psychology. To end, first note their similarities differences. We then show how research, typically emphasizing aspects moral cognition emotion, may benefit from incorporating motivational concepts research. Similarly, a better understanding the nature many domains. place special focus on various components...
Authorities frequently justify their sanctions as attempts to deter people from rule breaking. Although providing a sanction justification seems appealing and harmless, we propose that deterrence decreases the extent which are effective in promoting compliance. We develop theoretical model specifies how why this occurs. Consistent with our model, 5 experiments demonstrated that-compared provided without or just-deserts justification-sanction effectiveness decreased when were justified This...
Taking another person’s perspective has generally been found to foster positive attitudes. We propose that taking can lead more negative attitudes when people imagine an experience threatens their current motivations and goals. test this idea by examining how the of a male same-sex couple influences political conservatives’ Across four studies, we demonstrate (a) extent which conservatives (but not liberals) sexual behavior predicts anti-gay attitudes, (b) effect is in part attributable...
Because trust is essential in relationships, scholars have sought to determine what causes people each other. A burgeoning area of research on has focused power dynamics. Yet, although successful development relationships a function one individual initiating and another reciprocating this trust, exclusively the impact initiation left unaddressed reciprocation. In current research, I examine dynamics reciprocation-people trusting someone who first trusts them. Across five preregistered...
People frequently condemn harmless sexual taboo behaviours. Based on self-affirmation theory, we predicted that providing an opportunity to self-affirm decreases the tendency morally taboos. In Experiment 1, found evidence moral condemnation of taboos and ruled out this was due a decrease in how disgusting participants considered acts. 2, replicated effect demonstrated mediating role self-directed threat emotions. These results demonstrate arises part from need protect self-integrity. We...
Abstract The current research examined whether social power affects what people find funny. In two experiments, participants’ psychological state of was experimentally manipulated and their evaluations offensive jokes were assessed. Results showed that participants in a high – as compared to low evaluated less inappropriate, offensive, funnier. Mediation analyses increased the funniness through decreasing perceived inappropriateness these jokes. Implications for on humor are discussed.
Despite sharing conceptual overlap, morality and self-control research have led largely separate lives. In this article, we highlight neglected connections between these major areas of psychology. To end, first note their similarities differences. We then show how research, typically emphasizing aspects moral cognition emotion, may benefit from incorporating motivational concepts research. Similarly, a better understanding the nature many domains. place special focus on various components...
We propose that the risk of violence at protests can be estimated as a function individual moralization and perceived moral convergence. Using data from 2015 Baltimore protests, we find not only did rate rhetoric on social media increase days with violent but also hourly frequency morally relevant tweets predicted future rates arrest during suggesting an association between protest violence. To understand structure this association, ran series controlled behavioral experiments demonstrating...
Social media platforms such as Twitter have significantly broadened the reach of social movements, allowing people to easily advocate for their hot-button political and causes. In current research, we examine what impacts individual's decisions a cause online, focusing on moral rhetoric used. We find in seven behavioral experiments (N = 3152) an observational study (34,967 users) that liberals demonstrate reduced support preferential causes use conservative-associated (i.e. binding...
In this paper, we address the problem of detecting expressions moral values in tweets using content analysis. This is a particularly challenging because are often only implicitly signaled language, and contain little contextual information due to length constraints. To these obstacles, present novel approach automatically acquire background knowledge from an external base enrich input texts thus improve value prediction. By combining basic text features with knowledge, our overall...