Hierarchical Integration of Agency and Communion: A Study of Influential Moral Figures
Hierarchical Integration of Agency and Communion: A Study of Influential Moral Figures
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00764.x
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
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5
通讯作者：
Dunlop, William L.
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作者：
Frimer, Jeremy A.;Walker, Lawrence J.;Dunlop, William L.
这项研究的目的是（a）确定哪些近代历史上有影响力的人物，哪些没有人格化的道德卓越，（B）检查的动机，驱使这些人沿着这样不同的道路。在第一项研究中，102名社会科学家评估了《时代》杂志名单上有影响力人物的道德品质。在研究2中，我们选择了这些人物中排名最高的15人组成一个道德模范组，排名最低的15人组成一个具有类似影响力的人的对照组。我们测量的动机方面的个性（代理和交流）的内容分析现存的演讲和采访。道德典范通过将代理动机视为达到公共动机目的的一种手段，展示了代理和公共动机的等级整合。相比之下，比较主体将纯粹的能动性人格化，将能动性动机视为达到目的的手段和目的本身。这些结果意味着，一个人的动机的强度和结构都可以解释道德行为。
The purpose of this research is to (a) identify which of recent history's influential figures did and which did not personify moral excellence, and (b) to examine the motives that drove these individuals along such divergent paths. In Study 1, 102 social scientists evaluated the moral qualities of influential figures from Time Magazine's lists. In Study 2, we selected the 15 top ranking of these figures to comprise a moral exemplar group and the bottom 15 to comprise a comparison group of similarly influential people. We measured the motivational aspects of their personality (agency and communion) by content-analyzing extant speeches and interviews. Moral exemplars exhibited the hierarchical integration of agency and communion by treating agentic motives as a means to an end of communal motives. Comparison subjects, by contrast, personified unmitigated agency by treating motives of agency as both a means to an end and an end unto itself. These results imply that both the strength and structure of a person's motives account for moral behavior.