Jesse Reynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse Reynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse |
| FAMILY NAME | Reynolds |
| SIGNATURE | REYNOLDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8284-2417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Truthfulness Predominates in Americans’ Conceptualizations of Honesty: A Prototype Analysis
Honesty is a near universally valued trait. However, the term honesty captures a litany of traits and behaviors, obscuring research on social perceptions and trait measurement of honesty and creating philosophical difficulties in accounting for what (if anything) unifies this diversity. We applied a prototype analysis approach to identify the most central elements of lay honesty conceptualizations, identifying elements that come to mind and are e…
Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional
OBJECTIVE: What do people see as distinguishing the morally exceptional from others? To handle the problem that people may disagree about who qualifies as morally exceptional, we asked subjects to select and rate their own examples of morally exceptional, morally average, and immoral people. METHOD: Subjects rated each selected exemplar on several enablers of moral action and several directions of moral action. By applying the logic underlying st…
Intrinsic religiosity attenuates the negative relationship between social disconnectedness and meaning in life
Positive social connections are integral to people’s experience of meaning in their lives. As such, social isolation can make life seem meaningless. Chan, Michalak, and Ybarra (2019, Journal of Personality) provided evidence that religious beliefs (not just participation in corporate religious life) can provide an alternative source of meaning for people who feel socially isolated. We tested whether this phenomenon was specific to (a) intrinsic v…
Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results
To what extent are research results influenced by subjective decisions that scientists make as they design studies? Fifteen research teams independently designed studies to answer five original research questions related to moral judgments, negotiations, and implicit cognition. Participants from 2 separate large samples (total N > 15,000) were then randomly assigned to complete 1 version of each study. Effect sizes varied dramatically across diff…
Not just bad actions: Affective concern for bad outcomes contributes to moral condemnation of harm in moral dilemmas
Moral dilemmas typically entail directly causing harm (said to violate deontological ethics) to maximize overall outcomes (said to uphold utilitarian ethics). The dual process model suggests harm-rejection judgments derive from affective reactions to harm, whereas harm-acceptance judgments derive from cognitive evaluations of outcomes. Recently, Miller, Hannikainen, and Cushman (2014) argued that harm-rejection judgments primarily reflect self-fo…
A critical examination of the climate engineering moral hazard and risk compensation concern
The widespread concern that research into and potential implementation of climate engineering would reduce mitigation and adaptation is critically examined. First, empirical evidence of such moral hazard or risk compensation in general is inconclusive, and the empirical evidence to date in the case of climate engineering indicates that the reverse may occur. Second, basic economics of substitutes shows that reducing mitigation in response to clim…
Food cost and nutritional quality: Reply to: ‘In reaction to the paper by Katz and colleagues’
A cost comparison of more and less nutritious food choices in US supermarkets
Objective The present study directly compared prices of more and less nutritious foods within given categories in US supermarkets. Design Foods selected from six supermarkets in Jackson County were categorized using the five criteria of the Nutrition DetectivesTM (ND) programme and an item-to-item cost comparison was made using posted prices. The nutritional quality of foods was distinguished using the clues of the ND nutrition education programm…
Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results
To what extent are research results influenced by subjective decisions that scientists make as they design studies? Fifteen research teams independently designed studies to answer five original research questions related to moral judgments, negotiations, and implicit cognition. Participants from 2 separate large samples (total N > 15,000) were then randomly assigned to complete 1 version of each study. Effect sizes varied dramatically across diff…
A critical examination of the climate engineering moral hazard and risk compensation concern
The widespread concern that research into and potential implementation of climate engineering would reduce mitigation and adaptation is critically examined. First, empirical evidence of such moral hazard or risk compensation in general is inconclusive, and the empirical evidence to date in the case of climate engineering indicates that the reverse may occur. Second, basic economics of substitutes shows that reducing mitigation in response to clim…
A cost comparison of more and less nutritious food choices in US supermarkets
Objective The present study directly compared prices of more and less nutritious foods within given categories in US supermarkets. Design Foods selected from six supermarkets in Jackson County were categorized using the five criteria of the Nutrition DetectivesTM (ND) programme and an item-to-item cost comparison was made using posted prices. The nutritional quality of foods was distinguished using the clues of the ND nutrition education programm…
Food cost and nutritional quality: Reply to: ‘In reaction to the paper by Katz and colleagues’
A critical examination of the climate engineering moral hazard and risk compensation concern
The widespread concern that research into and potential implementation of climate engineering would reduce mitigation and adaptation is critically examined. First, empirical evidence of such moral hazard or risk compensation in general is inconclusive, and the empirical evidence to date in the case of climate engineering indicates that the reverse may occur. Second, basic economics of substitutes shows that reducing mitigation in response to clim…
Not just bad actions: Affective concern for bad outcomes contributes to moral condemnation of harm in moral dilemmas
Moral dilemmas typically entail directly causing harm (said to violate deontological ethics) to maximize overall outcomes (said to uphold utilitarian ethics). The dual process model suggests harm-rejection judgments derive from affective reactions to harm, whereas harm-acceptance judgments derive from cognitive evaluations of outcomes. Recently, Miller, Hannikainen, and Cushman (2014) argued that harm-rejection judgments primarily reflect self-fo…
Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results
To what extent are research results influenced by subjective decisions that scientists make as they design studies? Fifteen research teams independently designed studies to answer five original research questions related to moral judgments, negotiations, and implicit cognition. Participants from 2 separate large samples (total N > 15,000) were then randomly assigned to complete 1 version of each study. Effect sizes varied dramatically across diff…
Intrinsic religiosity attenuates the negative relationship between social disconnectedness and meaning in life
Positive social connections are integral to people’s experience of meaning in their lives. As such, social isolation can make life seem meaningless. Chan, Michalak, and Ybarra (2019, Journal of Personality) provided evidence that religious beliefs (not just participation in corporate religious life) can provide an alternative source of meaning for people who feel socially isolated. We tested whether this phenomenon was specific to (a) intrinsic v…
Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional
OBJECTIVE: What do people see as distinguishing the morally exceptional from others? To handle the problem that people may disagree about who qualifies as morally exceptional, we asked subjects to select and rate their own examples of morally exceptional, morally average, and immoral people. METHOD: Subjects rated each selected exemplar on several enablers of moral action and several directions of moral action. By applying the logic underlying st…
Truthfulness Predominates in Americans’ Conceptualizations of Honesty: A Prototype Analysis
Honesty is a near universally valued trait. However, the term honesty captures a litany of traits and behaviors, obscuring research on social perceptions and trait measurement of honesty and creating philosophical difficulties in accounting for what (if anything) unifies this diversity. We applied a prototype analysis approach to identify the most central elements of lay honesty conceptualizations, identifying elements that come to mind and are e…
Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (2 works) · Harm (2 works) · Honesty (2 works) · Law (2 works)