Moral migration: Desires to become more empathic predict changes in moral foundations |
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| Institution: | 1. Universidad de Granada, Spain;2. Southern Methodist University, United States;3. Michigan State University, United States;4. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States;1. Heidelberg University, Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany;2. University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76826 Landau, Germany;3. University of Marburg, Gutenbergstraße 18, 35032 Marburg, Germany;1. College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China;2. Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China;3. Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China;1. Department of Psychology, University of Florida, United States;2. Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, United State |
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| Abstract: | Many people want to change their personality traits—and research on volitional change has documented their success in doing so. In the present study, we examine whether people also wish to change their levels of empathy, and whether these desires precede shifts in dispositional empathy and morality over a 15-week period. We recorded participants’ change goals, followed by weekly measurements of empathic concern and perspective-taking, as well as moral foundations. Results indicated that most participants wished to cultivate empathic concern and, especially, perspective-taking. Those who sought to develop these qualities tended to actually do so at a faster rate than their peers who did not—and, as a consequence, also drifted toward a characteristically liberal, individualizing morality. |
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| Keywords: | Volitional change Empathy Moral foundations Adult personality development |
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