Identifying psychological features of robots that encourage and discourage trust

JE Plaks, LB Rodriguez, R Ayad - Computers in Human Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Trust is a significant predictor of humans' willingness to engage with robots. What increases–
and decreases–human-robot trust? In contrast with research that has focused on robots' …

Taking the moral high ground: Deontological and absolutist moral dilemma judgments convey self-righteousness

A Weiss, P Burgmer, SC Rom, P Conway - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
Individuals who reject sacrificial harm to maximize overall outcomes, consistent with
deontological (vs. utilitarian) ethics, appear warmer, more moral, and more trustworthy. Yet …

Thinking about reasons for one's choices increases sensitivity to moral norms in moral-dilemma judgments

NL Ng, DM Luke, B Gawronski - Personality and Social …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Whereas norm-conforming (deontological) judgments have been claimed to be rooted in
automatic emotional responses, outcome-maximizing (utilitarian) judgments are assumed to …

Target Happiness Attenuates Perceivers' Moral Condemnation of Prejudiced People

H Rose, CA Sanders, C Willett… - Personality and Social …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Five experiments (combined N= 4,915) tested the prediction that the moral boost of
happiness would persist for social targets with moral failings. In Studies 1 and 2, White and …

People Attribute a Range of Highly-Varied and Socially-Bound Meanings to Naturalistic Sad Facial Expressions

S de la Harpe, R Palermo, E Brown, N Fay… - Journal of Nonverbal …, 2024 - Springer
Depictions of sadness are commonplace, and here we aimed to discover and catalogue the
complex and nuanced ways that people interpret sad facial expressions. We used a rigorous …

Identifying the emotions behind apologies for severe transgressions

SJ West, ND Thomson - Motivation and Emotion, 2023 - Springer
Interpersonal transgressions, subsequent apologies, and offered (or withheld) forgiveness
hold important consequences for both perpetrators and victims. Research has focused …

On judging the morality of suicide

A Allam, D Kollareth, JA Russell - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
The theory that suicide violates the moral domain of purity, whereas homicide violates the
qualitatively different domain of autonomy, rests in part on the hypothesis that suicide, but …

Typology and impact of follower responses to social media influencer “promotional crisis”

AI Rynarzewska, L Nafees, AN Nikolov - Psychology & Marketing - Wiley Online Library
This study introduces a typology of follower responses to seemingly deceptive promotional
content by a social media influencer (SMI) and the effects of those responses on observers …

[PDF][PDF] Narratives and Network on Online Hate

J Uyheng - 2024 - reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu
Social media platforms have enabled the vast proliferation of online hate messages and the
growth of online hate groups worldwide. Considerable efforts in the computational sciences …

Emojinal Connections: Exploring the Role of Modifiable Emojis and Gendered Perceptions of Emoji Use in Computer-Mediated Communication

B Nixon - 2024 - search.proquest.com
The use of emojis as powerful communication tools has strengthened since their inception,
but there has been little to no research unpacking individual usage patterns and perceptions …