Looking for honesty: The primary role of morality (vs. sociability and competence) in information gathering

By Marco Brambilla, Patrice Rusconi, Simona Sacchi, Paolo Cherubini. 2011

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Motivational Theory of Role Modeling: How Role Models Influence Role Aspirants’ Goals (2015, background): “The literature on admiration (e.g., Sweetman, Spears, Livingstone, & Manstead, 2013) and impression formation and social judgment (e.g., Brambilla, Rusconi, Sacchi, & Cherubini, 2011; Brambilla, Sacchi, Rusconi, Cheru-bini, & Yzerbyt, 2012) suggest that there are three important factors that…”
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction (2012, background): “Sociability traits indicate a person’s style of relating with others (e.g., affability, likeability, aggressiveness), whereas morality traits include an appraisal of correctness or incorrectness (trustworthiness, sincerity, dishonesty; Brambilla et al., 2011).”
Morality and intergroup relations: Threats to safety and group image predict the desire to interact with outgroup and ingroup members☆ (2013, methodology): “This revealed that people first try to establish the morality of ingroup as well as outgroup targets (Brambilla et al., 2011).”
Morality and behavioural regulation in groups: A social identity approach (2013, background): “Additionally, this research revealed that individuals are more interested in gathering information about morality (than sociability and competence) when asked to form an impression about other individuals or groups (Brambilla et al., 2011, 2012).”
Moral character predominates in person perception and evaluation. (2014, background): “One alternative would be to treat moral character information as a particularly important sub-component of the warmth dimension, as has been proposed previously (see, e.g., Brambilla et al., 2011).”
The Primacy of Agency Over Competence in Status Perception (2014, methodology): “In line with the theoretical model developed by Fiske and her colleagues (2002), we define competence as efficiency in pursuing one’s goals, and more precisely efficiency in the achievement of tasks (Brambilla et al., 2011).”
The strategic moral self: Self-presentation shapes moral dilemma judgments (2018, background): “Although these constructs can be disentangled (e.g., Brambilla et al., 2011), in the present context they happen to covary substantially.”
Self-esteem is dominated by agentic over communal information (2011, background): “When forming impressions of others, peoplemore frequently look for information on their communion rather than agency (Brambilla et al., 2010; De Bruin & Van Lange, 2000; Wojciszke, Bazinska & Jaworski, 1998) and of all traits of the Big Five, people are most interested in drawing inferences on agree”