When Friends’ and Society’s Expectations Collide: A Longitudinal Study of Moral Decision-Making and Personality across College

Bollich, Kathryn L.; Hill, Patrick L.; Harms, Peter D.; Jackson, Joshua J.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146716

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“…Nevertheless, we might expect similar findings in a female, non-college sample, as more modern samples show mostly similar personality development patterns across gender and college attendance (Lüdtke, Roberts, DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-CONCEPT 24 Trautwein, & Nagy, 2011). Moreover, a study of moral development within this dataset found similar findings to more modern dataset (Bollich et al, 2016). Another limitation is the coding of self-statements.…”

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An Idiographic Approach to Personality Development: Examining Change and Consistency in Self-Concept

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Harms²

2019

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The field of personality development almost exclusively relies on nomothetic measures (i.e., measures that are designed to capture universal, shared characteristics). Over-reliance on nomothetic measures can neglect important, individualized aspects of personality that are not captured with standard nomothetic measures. The current study takes an individual, idiographic approach to studying personality development by examining the development of one's selfconcept. Participants (N = 507) provided 20 answers to the question "who am I?" four times across a four-year period in college. These self-defining statements were categorized into seven categories (loci, activities and interests, traits, self-evaluation, goals, ideology, and student), and their change and consistency were examined in multiple ways-using rank-order consistency, mean-level change, individual differences in change, and ipsative consistency. Analyses revealed that self-concept is moderately consistent across time, but that mean-level changes occurred in six of the seven categories. Further, mean-level change in self-complexity, or the number of categories used, was also found. Mean-level changes were qualified by significant individual differences in change as well as by a wide distribution of ipsative consistency. The results suggest that young adults are both changing and maintaining the ways they describe themselves over time, some more than others. The diverse content and consistency at the individual-level demonstrates the need for more individual, idiographic assessments to thoroughly examine personality development.

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An Idiographic Approach to Personality Development: Examining Change and Consistency in Self-Concept

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Harms²

2019

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“…This prediction is based on the test-retest stability of personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness (Fleeson, 2001; Roberts & DelVecchio, 2000), which are related to behaving morally (Cohen, Panter, Turan, Morse, & Kim, 2014; Matsuba & Walker, 2004). Furthermore, studies examining explicitly moral constructs have shown that the rank-order stability of individual differences in moral judgments is relatively high (Bollich, Hill, Harms, & Jackson, 2015; Graham et al, 2011). Although most of this work relies on self- or other-reports of traits rather than observed behavior, it nevertheless provides grounds for predicting stable individual differences in moral behavior.…”

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Eavesdropping on character: Assessing everyday moral behaviors

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Doris

Vazire

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Journal of Research in Personality

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Despite decades of interest in moral character, comparatively little is known about moral behavior in everyday life. This paper reports a novel method for assessing everyday moral behaviors using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR)—a digital audio-recorder that intermittently samples snippets of ambient sounds from people's environments—and examines the stability of these moral behaviors. In three samples (combined N = 186), participants wore an EAR over one or two weekends. Audio files were coded for everyday moral behaviors (e.g., showing sympathy, gratitude) and morally-neutral comparison language behaviors (e.g., use of prepositions, articles). Results indicate that stable individual differences in moral behavior can be systematically observed in daily life, and that their stability is comparable to the stability of neutral language behaviors.

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“…3 Though see Forbes (2018), Bollich et al (2016), Hofmann et al (2014), Lee and Holyoak (2020), and Weidman et al (2020). 4 Relatedly, for favourable judgements, we predict the opposite effect.…”

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Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)

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McGann²,

Igou³

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Observed variability and complexity of judgments of 'right' and 'wrong' cannot currently be readily accounted for within extant approaches to understanding moral judgment. In response to this challenge we present a novel perspective on categorization in moral judgment. Moral judgment as categorization (MJAC) incorporates principles of category formation research while addressing key challenges to existing approaches to moral judgment. People develop skills in making context-relevant categorizations. That is, they learn that various objects (events, behaviors, people etc.) can be categorized as morally 'right' or 'wrong'. Repetition and rehearsal results in reliable, habitualized categorizations. According to this skill formation account of moral categorization, the learning and the habitualization of the forming of moral categories, occurs within goal-directed activity that is sensitive to various contextual influences. By allowing for the complexity of moral judgments, MJAC offers greater explanatory power than existing approaches, while also providing opportunities for a diverse range of new research questions.

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When Friends’ and Society’s Expectations Collide: A Longitudinal Study of Moral Decision-Making and Personality across College

Cited by 10 publications

References 63 publications

An Idiographic Approach to Personality Development: Examining Change and Consistency in Self-Concept

An Idiographic Approach to Personality Development: Examining Change and Consistency in Self-Concept

Eavesdropping on character: Assessing everyday moral behaviors

Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)

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