title: Agreement on the perception of moral character.
abstract: This study tested for inter-judge agreement on moral character. A sample of students and community members rated their own moral character using a measure that tapped six moral character traits. Friends, family members, and/or acquaintances rated these targets on the same traits. Self/other and inter-informant agreement was found at the trait level for both a general character factor and for residual variance explained by individual moral character traits, as well as at the individual level (judges agreed on targets' "moral character profiles"). Observed inter-judge agreement constitutes evidence for the existence of moral character, and raises questions about the nature of moral character traits.
authors.affiliation: The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, Baltimore, MD, USA ehelzer@jhu.edu.
authors.forename: Erik G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Helzer
authors.affiliation: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
authors.forename: R Michael
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Furr
authors.affiliation: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hawkins
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Maxwell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barranti
authors.affiliation: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Laura E R
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Blackie
authors.affiliation: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fleeson
mesh_terms: D002605:Character; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: agreement; character; morality; personality