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Moral Goodness is Gendered

2025-10-20

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<p>Women are consistently judged to be more caring and communal than men. We find that moral goodness itself is feminine at the level of faces, traits, behaviors, and impressions (N = 5,376). Using reverse-correlation methods, we show that mental representations of the face of “a morally good person” is a woman’s face. When completing a novel profile-generation task, people ascribe more morally good traits to wome...

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Literature Corpus work: 41eae627-7ae2-5d37-9dad-ae596a6c64b2
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/sguq5_v6

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