When it takes a bad person to do the right thing

Uhlmann, Eric Luis; Zhu, Luke; Tannenbaum, David

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2012.10.005

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“…As a result, less harmful acts can elicit more negative moral judgments, as long as they are more informative about personal character. Further, act-person dissociations can emerge, in which acts that are rated as less blameworthy than other acts nonetheless send clearer signals of poor character (Tannenbaum, Uhlmann, & Diermeier, 2011;Uhlmann, Zhu, & Tannenbaum, 2013). More broadly, the personcentered approach is consistent with research showing that internal factors, such as intentions, can be weighed more heavily in moral judgments than objective external consequences.…”

Section: Person-centered Moralitysupporting

confidence: 51%

The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline

Schweinsberg

Madan

Vianello

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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This crowdsourced project introduces a collaborative approach to improving the reproducibility of scientific research, in which findings are replicated in qualified independent laboratories before (rather than after) they are published. Our goal is to establish a non-adversarial replication process with highly informative final results. To illustrate the Pre-Publication Independent Replication (PPIR) approach, 25 research groups conducted replications of all ten moral judgment effects which the last author and his collaborators had "in the pipeline" as of August 2014. Six findings replicated according to all replication criteria, one finding replicated but with a significantly smaller effect size than the original, one finding replicated consistently in the original culture but not outside of it, and two findings failed to find support. In total, 40% of the original findings failed at least one major replication criterion. Potential ways to implement and incentivize pre-publication independent replication on a large scale are discussed

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Section: Person-centered Moralitysupporting

confidence: 51%

The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline

Schweinsberg

Madan

Vianello

et al. 2016

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…While deontological judgments have some expressive and interpersonal advantages (e.g., they can communicate strong moral conviction, empathy, and good character, particularly within moral dilemmatic contexts; see Bartels & Pizarro, 2011;Uhlmann, Zhu, & Tannenbaum, 2013), an unyielding commitment to deontological rules or …”

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Religiosity, Political Orientation, and Consequentialist Moral Thinking

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Sousa

2013

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Three studies demonstrated that the moral judgments of religious individuals and political conservatives are highly insensitive to consequentialist (i.e., outcome-based) considerations. In Study 1, both religiosity and political conservatism predicted a resistance toward consequentialist thinking concerning a range of transgressive acts, independent of other relevant dispositional factors (e.g., disgust sensitivity). Study 2 ruled out differences in welfare sensitivity as an explanation for these findings. In Study 3, religiosity and political conservatism predicted a commitment to judging “harmless” taboo violations morally impermissible, rather than discretionary, despite the lack of negative consequences rising from the act. Furthermore, non-consequentialist thinking style was shown to mediate the relationship religiosity/conservatism had with impermissibility judgments, while intuitive thinking style did not. These data provide further evidence for the influence of religious and political commitments in motivating divergent moral judgments, while highlighting a new dispositional factor, non-consequentialist thinking style, as a mediator of these effects.

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“…There is growing empirical support for a "personcentered" view of moral judgment [71][72][73][74][75], in which moral evaluation is less centered on the assessments of acts than on overall assessments of moral character [76]. That is, people evaluate the actions of others in consideration of the moral traits those actions signal.…”

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confidence: 99%