The Effects of Social Perception on Moral Judgment.

ABSTRACT: When people express a moral judgment, others make inferences about their personality, such as whether they are warm or competent. People may use this interpersonal process to present themselves in a way that is socially acceptable in the current circumstances. Across four studies, we investigated this hypothesis in Chinese culture and showed that college student participants tended to associate others' deontological moral judgments with warmth and utilitarian moral judgments with competence (Study 1, M _age = 21.1, SD = 2.45; Study 2, M _age = 20.53, SD = 1.87). In addition, participants made more deontological judgments after preparing to be interviewed for a job requiring them to be in a warm social role, and more utilitarian judgments after preparing fo

SUBMITTER: Jin WY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8023274 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature