From incidental harms to moral elevation: The positive effect of experiencing unintentional, uncontrollable, and unavoidable harms on perceived moral character
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.06.016
Abstract: Abstract We contend that unintentional, uncontrollable, and unavoidable (i.e., incidental) hardships boost perceptions of volunteers' moral character because observers have a reflexive positive response to people who endure personal costs while serving others. Five experiments… read more here.
Keywords: positive effect; moral character; character; uncontrollable unavoidable ... See more keywords