Start Date
2019
Description
- “Moral elevation,” the emotional response to exceptional virtue, increases prosocial behavior (Thompson & Siegel, 2017).
- We examined the effect of actors’ morallyirrelevant characteristics (namely, likability) on elevation levels.
- Despite an effective manipulation, participants in the likable condition did not significantly differ from the control condition
- Perhaps counterintuitively, this suggests that exemplar likability does not have a direct effect on feelings of moral elevation.
Recommended Citation
LeFebre, Nathan and Meindl, Peter, "The Effect of Exemplar Likability on Moral Elevation" (2019). Summer Research. 15.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/summer_research/2019/Posters/15
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The Effect of Exemplar Likability on Moral Elevation
- “Moral elevation,” the emotional response to exceptional virtue, increases prosocial behavior (Thompson & Siegel, 2017).
- We examined the effect of actors’ morallyirrelevant characteristics (namely, likability) on elevation levels.
- Despite an effective manipulation, participants in the likable condition did not significantly differ from the control condition
- Perhaps counterintuitively, this suggests that exemplar likability does not have a direct effect on feelings of moral elevation.