Geoffrey P Goodwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 196030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey P Goodwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey P |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodwin |
| SIGNATURE | GOODWIN G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3682-0444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Are moral people happier? Answers from reputation-based measures of moral character
Philosophers have long debated whether moral virtue contributes to happiness or whether morality and happiness are in conflict. Yet, little empirical research directly addresses this question. Here, we examined the association between reputation-based measures of everyday moral character (operationalized as a composite of widely accepted moral virtues such as compassion, honesty, and fairness) and self-reported well-being across two cultures. In …
How and why people want to be more moral
OBJECTIVE: What types of moral improvements do people wish to make? Do they hope to become more good, or less bad? Do they wish to be more caring? More honest? More loyal? And why exactly do they want to become more moral? Presumably, most people want to improve their morality because this would benefit others, but is this in fact their primary motivation? Here, we begin to investigate these questions. METHOD: Across two large, preregistered stud…
Population ethical intuitions
People judge others to have more voluntary control over beliefs than they themselves do
People think other individuals have considerable control over what they believe. However, no work to date has investigated how people judge their own belief control, nor whether such judgments diverge from their judgments of others. We addressed this gap in 7 studies and found that people judge others to be more able to voluntarily change what they believe than they themselves are. This occurs when people judge others who disagree with them (Stud…
Trait Associations for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in News Media
We study media representations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In particular, we train models of semantic memory on a large number of news media outlets that published online articles during the course of the election. Based on the structure of word co-occurrence in these media outlets, our models learn semantic representations for the two presidential candidates as well as for widely studied personalit…
When It’s Bad to Be Friendly and Smart
Morality, sociability, and competence are distinct dimensions in person perception. We argue that a person’s morality informs us about their likely intentions, whereas their competence and sociability inform us about the likelihood that they will fulfill those intentions. Accordingly, we hypothesized that whereas morality would be considered unconditionally positive, sociability and competence would be highly positive only in moral others, and wo…
Moral Character in Person Perception
Understanding how people form impressions of others is a key goal of social cognition research. Past theories have posited that two fundamental dimensions—warmth and competence—underlie impression formation. However, these models conflate morality with warmth and fail to capture the full role that moral character plays in impression formation. An emerging perspective separates moral character (or morality) from warmth on both theoretical and empi…
Does Incidental Disgust Amplify Moral Judgment? A Meta-Analytic Review of Experimental Evidence
The role of emotion in moral judgment is currently a topic of much debate in moral psychology. One specific claim made by many researchers is that irrelevant feelings of disgust can amplify the severity of moral condemnation. Numerous researchers have found this effect, but there have also been several published failures to replicate it. Clarifying this issue would inform important theoretical debates among rival accounts of moral judgment. We me…
Experimental Approaches to Moral Standing
Moral patients deserve moral consideration and concern - they have moral standing. What factors drive attributions of moral standing? Understanding these factors is important because it indicates how broadly (or narrowly) individuals conceptualize the moral world, and suggests how they will treat various entities, both human and non-human. This understanding has recently been advanced by a series of studies conducted by both psychologists and phi…
Moral character predominates in person perception and evaluation
What sorts of trait information do people most care about when forming impressions of others? Recent research in social cognition suggests that "warmth," broadly construed, should be of prime importance in impression formation. Yet, some prior research suggests that information about others' specifically moral traits--their moral "character"--may be a primary dimension. Although warmth and character have sometimes been conceived of as interchange…
Why are some moral beliefs perceived to be more objective than others
The psychology of meta-ethics
Preferences for Enhancement Pharmaceuticals
Four studies examined the willingness of young, healthy individuals to take drugs intended to enhance their own social, emotional, and cognitive traits. We found that people were much more reluctant to enhance traits believed to be more fundamental to self-identity (e.g., social comfort) than traits considered less fundamental to self-identity (e.g., concentration ability). Moral acceptability of a trait enhancement strongly predicted people's de…
Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence
Yet Another Paradigm
The Expanding United Nations
Journal Article The Expanding United Nations: I—Voting Patterns Get access Geoffrey Goodwin Geoffrey Goodwin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 1960, Pages 174–187, https://doi.org/10.2307/2612042 Published: 01 April 1960
Moral character predominates in person perception and evaluation
What sorts of trait information do people most care about when forming impressions of others? Recent research in social cognition suggests that "warmth," broadly construed, should be of prime importance in impression formation. Yet, some prior research suggests that information about others' specifically moral traits--their moral "character"--may be a primary dimension. Although warmth and character have sometimes been conceived of as interchange…
Why are some moral beliefs perceived to be more objective than others
Preferences for Enhancement Pharmaceuticals
Four studies examined the willingness of young, healthy individuals to take drugs intended to enhance their own social, emotional, and cognitive traits. We found that people were much more reluctant to enhance traits believed to be more fundamental to self-identity (e.g., social comfort) than traits considered less fundamental to self-identity (e.g., concentration ability). Moral acceptability of a trait enhancement strongly predicted people's de…
The Expanding United Nations
Journal Article The Expanding United Nations: I—Voting Patterns Get access Geoffrey Goodwin Geoffrey Goodwin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 1960, Pages 174–187, https://doi.org/10.2307/2612042 Published: 01 April 1960
Experimental Approaches to Moral Standing
Moral patients deserve moral consideration and concern - they have moral standing. What factors drive attributions of moral standing? Understanding these factors is important because it indicates how broadly (or narrowly) individuals conceptualize the moral world, and suggests how they will treat various entities, both human and non-human. This understanding has recently been advanced by a series of studies conducted by both psychologists and phi…
People judge others to have more voluntary control over beliefs than they themselves do
People think other individuals have considerable control over what they believe. However, no work to date has investigated how people judge their own belief control, nor whether such judgments diverge from their judgments of others. We addressed this gap in 7 studies and found that people judge others to be more able to voluntarily change what they believe than they themselves are. This occurs when people judge others who disagree with them (Stud…
The Expanding United Nations
Journal Article The Expanding United Nations: I—Voting Patterns Get access Geoffrey Goodwin Geoffrey Goodwin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 1960, Pages 174–187, https://doi.org/10.2307/2612042 Published: 01 April 1960
Yet Another Paradigm
Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence
The psychology of meta-ethics
Preferences for Enhancement Pharmaceuticals
Four studies examined the willingness of young, healthy individuals to take drugs intended to enhance their own social, emotional, and cognitive traits. We found that people were much more reluctant to enhance traits believed to be more fundamental to self-identity (e.g., social comfort) than traits considered less fundamental to self-identity (e.g., concentration ability). Moral acceptability of a trait enhancement strongly predicted people's de…
Why are some moral beliefs perceived to be more objective than others
Moral character predominates in person perception and evaluation
What sorts of trait information do people most care about when forming impressions of others? Recent research in social cognition suggests that "warmth," broadly construed, should be of prime importance in impression formation. Yet, some prior research suggests that information about others' specifically moral traits--their moral "character"--may be a primary dimension. Although warmth and character have sometimes been conceived of as interchange…
Moral Character in Person Perception
Understanding how people form impressions of others is a key goal of social cognition research. Past theories have posited that two fundamental dimensions—warmth and competence—underlie impression formation. However, these models conflate morality with warmth and fail to capture the full role that moral character plays in impression formation. An emerging perspective separates moral character (or morality) from warmth on both theoretical and empi…
Does Incidental Disgust Amplify Moral Judgment? A Meta-Analytic Review of Experimental Evidence
The role of emotion in moral judgment is currently a topic of much debate in moral psychology. One specific claim made by many researchers is that irrelevant feelings of disgust can amplify the severity of moral condemnation. Numerous researchers have found this effect, but there have also been several published failures to replicate it. Clarifying this issue would inform important theoretical debates among rival accounts of moral judgment. We me…
Experimental Approaches to Moral Standing
Moral patients deserve moral consideration and concern - they have moral standing. What factors drive attributions of moral standing? Understanding these factors is important because it indicates how broadly (or narrowly) individuals conceptualize the moral world, and suggests how they will treat various entities, both human and non-human. This understanding has recently been advanced by a series of studies conducted by both psychologists and phi…
When It’s Bad to Be Friendly and Smart
Morality, sociability, and competence are distinct dimensions in person perception. We argue that a person’s morality informs us about their likely intentions, whereas their competence and sociability inform us about the likelihood that they will fulfill those intentions. Accordingly, we hypothesized that whereas morality would be considered unconditionally positive, sociability and competence would be highly positive only in moral others, and wo…
Trait Associations for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in News Media
We study media representations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In particular, we train models of semantic memory on a large number of news media outlets that published online articles during the course of the election. Based on the structure of word co-occurrence in these media outlets, our models learn semantic representations for the two presidential candidates as well as for widely studied personalit…
People judge others to have more voluntary control over beliefs than they themselves do
People think other individuals have considerable control over what they believe. However, no work to date has investigated how people judge their own belief control, nor whether such judgments diverge from their judgments of others. We addressed this gap in 7 studies and found that people judge others to be more able to voluntarily change what they believe than they themselves are. This occurs when people judge others who disagree with them (Stud…
Population ethical intuitions
How and why people want to be more moral
OBJECTIVE: What types of moral improvements do people wish to make? Do they hope to become more good, or less bad? Do they wish to be more caring? More honest? More loyal? And why exactly do they want to become more moral? Presumably, most people want to improve their morality because this would benefit others, but is this in fact their primary motivation? Here, we begin to investigate these questions. METHOD: Across two large, preregistered stud…
Are moral people happier? Answers from reputation-based measures of moral character
Philosophers have long debated whether moral virtue contributes to happiness or whether morality and happiness are in conflict. Yet, little empirical research directly addresses this question. Here, we examined the association between reputation-based measures of everyday moral character (operationalized as a composite of widely accepted moral virtues such as compassion, honesty, and fairness) and self-reported well-being across two cultures. In …
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (8 works) · Moral disengagement (6 works) · Morality (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Moral development (5 works)