Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis.

I Thielmann, G Spadaro, D Balliet - Psychological bulletin, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Decades of research document individual differences in prosocial behavior using controlled
experiments that model social interactions in situations of interdependence. However …

The emerging science of virtue

BJ Fowers, JS Carroll, ND Leonhardt… - Perspectives on …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Numerous scholars have claimed that positive ethical traits such as virtues are important in
human psychology and behavior. Psychologists have begun to test these claims. The scores …

The MAD model of moral contagion: The role of motivation, attention, and design in the spread of moralized content online

WJ Brady, MJ Crockett… - … on Psychological Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for
moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence …

Integrating personality structure, personality process, and personality development

A Baumert, M Schmitt, M Perugini… - European Journal …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In this target article, we argue that personality processes, personality structure, and
personality development have to be understood and investigated in integrated ways in order …

Empathy and motivation for justice: Cognitive empathy and concern, but not emotional empathy, predict sensitivity to injustice for others

J Decety, KJ Yoder - Social neuroscience, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Why do people tend to care for upholding principles of justice? This study examined the
association between individual differences in the affective, motivational and cognitive …

Global human identification and citizenship: A review of psychological studies

S McFarland, J Hackett, K Hamer… - Political …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We review psychological research on global human identification and citizenship, Thomas
Paine's belief that “The world is my country, and all mankind are my brethren.” In turn, we …

Within-group synchronization in the prefrontal cortex associates with intergroup conflict

J Yang, H Zhang, J Ni, CKW De Dreu, Y Ma - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Individuals immersed in groups sometimes lose their individuality, take risks they would
normally avoid and approach outsiders with unprovoked hostility. In this study, we identified …

The good, the bad, and the just: Justice sensitivity predicts neural response during moral evaluation of actions performed by others

KJ Yoder, J Decety - Journal of Neuroscience, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Morality is a fundamental component of human cultures and has been defined as
prescriptive norms regarding how people should treat one another, including concepts such …

Spatiotemporal neural dynamics of moral judgment: A high-density ERP study

KJ Yoder, J Decety - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
Morality is a pervasive aspect of human nature across all cultures, and neuroscience
investigations are necessary for identifying what computational mechanisms underpin moral …

Justice sensitivity

A Baumert, M Schmitt - Handbook of social justice theory and research, 2016 - Springer
The present chapter reviews findings on justice sensitivity as an indicator of an individual's
concern for justice. People differ systematically in their inclination to perceive injustice and …