TY - JOUR
T1 - The relation between Honesty-Humility and moral concerns as expressed in language
AU - Ścigała, Karolina A.
AU - Arkoudi, Ioanna
AU - Schild, Christoph
AU - Pfattheicher, Stefan
AU - Zettler, Ingo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023
PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Ethical justifications
KW - HEXACO
KW - Honesty-Humility
KW - Moral Foundations
KW - Natural Language Processing
KW - NLP
KW - Self-serving justifications
KW - Unethical justifications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85147872880&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104351
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104351
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85147872880
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 103
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
M1 - 104351
ER -