Moral identity and the expanding circle of moral regard toward out-groups.

By Americus Reed, Karl Aquino. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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A grotesque and dark beauty: How moral identity and mechanisms of moral disengagement influence cognitive and emotional reactions to war (2007, background): “We used this subscale because it appears to be the most robust predictor of morally relevant behavior (cf., Aquino & Reed, 2002; Reed & Aquino, 2003) and is consistent with the theoretical deWnition of moral identity we adopt in this paper.”
Ethical leadership and employee knowledge sharing: Exploring dual-mediation paths (2017, background): “These values echo key moral traits that are conceptualized and validated to activate network mapping onto individuals' moral identity (Aquino & Reed, 2002; Reed & Aquino, 2003; Rupp, Shao, Thornton, & Skarlicki, 2013).”
A Social Context Model of Envy and Social Undermining (2012, background): “…theoretical and empirical work on moral exclusion has shown that people’s sense of moral obligation appears to be stronger when directed toward those who “are closer to us and weaker toward those who are psychologically distant” (Opotow, 1995: 351; Reed & Aquino, 2003; Tepper, Moss, & Duffy, 2011).”
Increasing Interpersonal and Informational Justice When Communicating Negative News: The Role of the Manager’s Empathic Concern and Moral Development (2010, background): “This is because empathic concern brings the news recipient into the manager’s circle of moral regard (Reed & Aquino, 2003)—the individuals who are entitled to considerations of fair treatment (Tyler et al., 1997).”
Pathways for Positive Identity Construction at Work: Four Types of Positive Identity and the Building of Social Resources (2010, background): “More specifically, Reed and Aquino (2003: 1271) demonstrated in a series of four experiments that when a moral identity becomes more salient, people expand their " circle of moral regard, " suggesting that one effect of having a more central moral identity is that it minimizes ingroup-outgroup…”