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Surveying the Moral Landscape: Moral Motives and Group-Based Moralities 17 Jul 2013 | 03:12 am
We present a new six-cell Model of Moral Motives that applies a fundamental motivational distinction in psychology to the moral domain. In addition to moral motives focused on the self or another, we ...
Mapping the Moral Maps: From Alternate Taxonomies to Competing Predictions 17 Jul 2013 | 03:12 am
The Model of Moral Motives will be of great value to moral psychology, both for its conceptualization of the provide/protect distinction at different levels of analysis (intrapersonal, interpersonal, ...
Moral Context Matters: A Reply to Graham 17 Jul 2013 | 03:12 am
In response to Graham’s comments, we attempt to clarify aspects of the Model of Moral Motives (MMM). The columns of our model represent three primary contexts for morality, involving behaviors focused...
Targeting the Good Target: An Integrative Review of the Characteristics and Consequences of Being Accurately Perceived 17 Jul 2013 | 03:12 am
A person’s judgeability, or the extent to which a person is easy to understand, plays an important role in how accurately a target will be perceived by others. Research on this topic, however, has not...
Action, Outcome, and Value: A Dual-System Framework for Morality 17 Jul 2013 | 03:12 am
Dual-system approaches to psychology explain the fundamental properties of human judgment, decision making, and behavior across diverse domains. Yet, the appropriate characterization of each system is...
Little-Known Truths, Quirky Anecdotes, Seething Scandals, and Even Some Science in the History of (Primarily Achievement) Motivation 17 Jul 2013 | 03:12 am
This article presents a history of the study of motivation from approximately 1900-1975, focusing on achievement strivings and containing little-known and often surprising facts about the main contrib...
Of Mice and Men: What Animal Research Can Tell Us About Context Effects on Automatic Responses in Humans 25 Mar 2013 | 08:56 am
Automatic responses play a central role in many areas of psychology. Counter to views that such responses are relatively rigid and inflexible, a large body of research has shown that they are highly c...
The Social Distance Theory of Power 25 Mar 2013 | 08:56 am
We propose that asymmetric dependence between individuals (i.e., power) produces asymmetric social distance, with high-power individuals feeling more distant than low-power individuals. From this insi...
Emotional Mimicry as Social Regulation 25 Mar 2013 | 08:56 am
Emotional mimicry is the imitation of the emotional expressions of others. According to the classic view on emotional mimicry (the Matched Motor Hypothesis), people mimic the specific facial movements...
A Critical Examination of Popular Assumptions About the Benefits and Outcomes of Monogamous Relationships 25 Mar 2013 | 08:56 am
In this article, we critically examine the social institution of monogamy. First, we discuss the lack of an adequate and consistent definition of the construct of monogamy and consider how common mono...
