We review empirical research on (social) psychology of morality to identify which issues and
relations are well documented by existing data and which areas of inquiry are in need of …

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 …

Social evaluation occurs at personal, interpersonal, group, and intergroup levels, with
competing theories and evidence. Five models engage in adversarial collaboration, to …

Over the past few decades, two-factor models of social cognition have emerged as a
dominant framework for understanding impression development. These models suggest that …

A long tradition of psychological research has explored the distinction between
characteristics that are part of the self and those that lie outside of it. Recently, a surge of …

It has often been suggested that the mind is central to personal identity. But do all parts of
the mind contribute equally? Across five experiments, we demonstrate that moral traits …

Both normative theories of ethics in philosophy and contemporary models of moral judgment
in psychology have focused almost exclusively on the permissibility of acts, in particular …

Understanding how people form impressions of others is a key goal of social cognition
research. Past theories have posited that two fundamental dimensions—warmth and …

Agency and communion are the core dimensions of social judgment as they indicate
whether someone's intentions toward us are beneficial or harmful (ie, communion), and …

Theories that reject the existence of altruism presume that emotional benefits serve as
ulterior motives for doing good deeds. These theories argue that even in the absence of …