Being Honest and Acting Consistently: Boundary Conditions of the Negativity Effect in the Attribution of Morality

Rusconi, Patrice; Sacchi, Simona; Brambilla, Marco; Capellini, Roberta; Cherubini, Paolo

doi:10.1521/soco.2020.38.2.146

Cited by 23 publications

(14 citation statements)

References 97 publications

(273 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…These results support H1 and extend those about the established primacy of morality (e.g. Brambilla et al, 2021;Leach et al, 2015) and immorality (Rusconi et al, 2020) in social perception by approaching the gender and ethnicity intersection. They also confirm the relevance of considering both positive and negative moral qualities on social perception (Rusconi et al, 2020;Skowronski & Carlston, 1987).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

“…Brambilla et al, 2021;Leach et al, 2015) and immorality (Rusconi et al, 2020) in social perception by approaching the gender and ethnicity intersection. They also confirm the relevance of considering both positive and negative moral qualities on social perception (Rusconi et al, 2020;Skowronski & Carlston, 1987). Our study further shows that Moroccan men are the most devalued target on such a dimension, according to the outgroup male target hypothesis (Navarrete et al, 2010).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Unpacking negative attitudes towards Moroccans: The interactive effect of ethnicity and gender on perceived morality

2021

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

R esearch on stereotyping has mainly focused on single social categories such as ethnicity or gender. Extending prior work, here we analyse the effects of the intersection of ethnicity and gender on stereotyping considering the descriptive and prescriptive components of positive and negative stereotype dimensions of morality, sociability and competence. We also examine these interaction effects on the stereotypes-emotions-facilitation behavioural tendencies link. Following a 2 × 2 between-subjects design, Spanish participants evaluated Moroccan immigrant (vs. Spaniard) women (vs. men). We found interaction effects only on descriptive moral character: Moroccan men are perceived as less moral than Spanish men, and less moral and more immoral than Moroccan women. Moreover, (im)morality has a driving role in predicting less facilitation tendencies towards Moroccan men (vs. Moroccan women and Spanish men) via positive emotions. Our findings reveal the primacy of (im)morality in social perception and helping intentions towards targets varying on gender and ethnicity.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unpacking negative attitudes towards Moroccans: The interactive effect of ethnicity and gender on perceived morality

2021

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This is inconsistent with the intention conveyed by the component of competence (e.g., high creativity and high efficiency; Fiske et al, 2007 ); thus, high-intensity happy expressions might be facial cues for a lack of competence. In addition, target faces were found to be affected by a stronger positivity effect in the competence domain for moderate levels of behaviors ( Rusconi et al, 2020 ). Therefore, compared to high-intensity happy expressions, low-intensity happy expressions that are attributed to moderate levels of behaviors might work as to be facial cues for competence.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of the Intensity of Happy Expression on Social Perception of Chinese Faces

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Numerous studies have shown that facial expressions influence trait impressions in the Western context. There are cultural differences in the perception and recognition rules of different intensities of happy expressions, and researchers have only explored the influence of the intensity of happy expressions on a few facial traits (warmth, trustworthiness, and competence). Therefore, we examined the effect of different intensities of Chinese happy expressions on the social perception of faces from 11 traits, namely trustworthiness, responsibility, attractiveness, sociability, confidence, intelligence, aggressiveness, dominance, competence, warmth, and tenacity. In this study, participants were asked to view a series of photographs of faces with high-intensity or low-intensity happy expressions and rate the 11 traits on a 7-point Likert scale (1 = “not very ××,” 7 = “very ××”). The results indicated that high-intensity happy expression had higher-rated scores for sociability and warmth but lower scores for dominance, aggressiveness, intelligence, and competence than the low-intensity happy expression; there was no significant difference in the rated scores for trustworthiness, attractiveness, responsibility, confidence, and tenacity between the high-intensity and low-intensity happy expressions. These results suggested that, compared to the low-intensity happy expression, the high-intensity happy expression will enhance the perceptual outcome of the traits related to approachability, reduce the perceptual outcome of traits related to capability, and have no significant effect on trustworthiness, attractiveness, responsibility, confidence, and tenacity.

show abstract

“…Behavior statements that are high in informativeness are diagnostic of a person’s true character, resulting in greater impression change [ 18 , 19 ]. Research has shown that the informativeness dimension is related to other dimensions: behavior statements that are morally negative are rated as more informative than morally positive statements [e.g., 20 , 21 ] and morally extreme behavior statements are rated as more informative than morally moderate statements [ 22 – 24 , see 25 for a review]. It has recently been established that the believability of behavioral information is also important to impression formation; person impressions are updated only when the information is considered to be believable, regardless of how informative or extreme the information is [ 5 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impression formation stimuli: A corpus of behavior statements rated on morality, competence, informativeness, and believability

et al. 2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To investigate impression formation, researchers tend to rely on statements that describe a person’s behavior (e.g., “Alex ridicules people behind their backs”). These statements are presented to participants who then rate their impressions of the person. However, a corpus of behavior statements is costly to generate, and pre-existing corpora may be outdated and might not measure the dimension(s) of interest. The present study makes available a normed corpus of 160 contemporary behavior statements that were rated on 4 dimensions relevant to impression formation: morality, competence, informativeness, and believability. In addition, we show that the different dimensions are non-independent, exhibiting a range of linear and non-linear relationships, which may present a problem for past research. However, researchers interested in impression formation can control for these relationships (e.g., statistically) using the present corpus of behavior statements.

show abstract

Being Honest and Acting Consistently: Boundary Conditions of the Negativity Effect in the Attribution of Morality

Cited by 23 publications

References 97 publications

Unpacking negative attitudes towards Moroccans: The interactive effect of ethnicity and gender on perceived morality

Unpacking negative attitudes towards Moroccans: The interactive effect of ethnicity and gender on perceived morality

The Effect of the Intensity of Happy Expression on Social Perception of Chinese Faces

Impression formation stimuli: A corpus of behavior statements rated on morality, competence, informativeness, and believability

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About