Moral Reputation: An Evolutionary and Cognitive Perspective

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Social Class and Prosocial Behavior (2016, background): “…public contexts tend to make reputational concerns more salient (Boehm, 2012; Flynn, Reagans, Amantullah, & Ames, 2006; Rand & Nowak, 2013; Sperber & Baumard, 2012), and concerns about reputation and impression management are heightened among upper relative to lower class individuals…”
Reputation management: Why and how gossip enhances generosity (2016, background): “Reputational concern involves concerns for others' collective beliefs about oneself — and such concerns can be activated by cues of others evaluating one's behavior (Emler, 1990; Sperber & Baumard, 2012).”
Moral character predominates in person perception and evaluation. (2014, background): “…Messick, & Goethals, 1989; Aquino & Reed, 2002; Monin & Jordan, 2009), which may in part be driven by the social benefits that result from being moral (i.e., the social benefits conferred by developing a reputation as a reliable, courageous, or generous person; see, e.g., Sperber & Baumard, 2012).”
Reputation, Gossip, and Human Cooperation (2016, background): “…reputation would lead to fitness benefits (e.g., resources, attracting partners) whereas an uncooperative reputation involved fitness costs (e.g., social exclusion) in the ancestral past (Cosmides & Tooby, 2013; Hogan & Briggs, 1986; Hogan, Jones, & Cheek, 1985; Sperber & Baumard, 2012).”