The relation between Honesty-Humility and moral concerns as expressed in language
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Does the basic trait Honesty-Humility predict the type of moral concerns people express in language? We explore whether Honesty-Humility relates to the expression of five moral concerns in language—namely, care/harm, justice/fairness, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation—as conceptualized by the Moral Foundations Theory. Using Natural Language Processing, we screened 17,217 (un)ethical justifications—i.e., reasons for behaving (un)ethically—for the presence of the five moral concerns (N = 901). We found that Honesty-Humility related positively to justice/fairness concerns, but it did not relate to care/harm, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation concerns. Our findings thus suggest that justice/fairness concerns might serve as one of the mechanisms relating Honesty-Humility to anti- and prosocial behavior.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 104351 |
Journal | Journal of Research in Personality |
Volume | 103 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISSN | 0092-6566 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
This investigation was funded by grants from the Carlsberg Foundation (CF16-0444) and the Independent Research Fund Denmark (7024-00057B) to the last author.
Publisher Copyright:
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- Ethical justifications, HEXACO, Honesty-Humility, Moral Foundations, Natural Language Processing, NLP, Self-serving justifications, Unethical justifications
Research areas
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