naa a22 4500 528847201 20180926082139.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180926s2017 xx s 000 0 eng 0022-1031 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.06.005 doi (EDOC)oai:edoc.unibas.ch:43416 Faced with exclusion: Perceived facial warmth and competence influence moral judgments of social exclusion [Elektronische Daten] [Selma Carolin Rudert, Leonie Reutner, Rainer Greifeneder, Mirella Walker] The current research investigates how facial appearance can act as a cue that guides observers' feelings and moral judgments about social exclusion episodes. In three studies, we manipulated facial portraits of allegedly ostracized persons to appear more or less warm and competent. Participants perceived it as least morally acceptable to exclude a person that appeared warm-and-incompetent. Moreover, participants perceived it as most acceptable to exclude a cold-and-incompetent looking person. In Study 2, we also varied the faces of the excluding group (i.e., the ostracizers). Results indicate that typical ostracizers are imagined as cold-and-incompetent looking. Study 3 suggests that the effect of a target's facial appearance on moral judgment is mediated by feelings of disgust. In sum, people's moral judgment about social exclusion can be influenced by facial appearance, which has many implications in intergroup research, such as for bystander intervention. Rudert Selma Carolin joint author Reutner Leonie joint author Greifeneder Rainer joint author Walker Mirella joint author Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 68, pp. 101-112 0022-1031 https://edoc.unibas.ch/43416/1/JESP_Rudert_et_al_2016.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository 1 Article edoc PeerReviewed edoc peerstatus EDOC 856 40 https://edoc.unibas.ch/43416/1/JESP_Rudert_et_al_2016.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository EDOC 700 1- Rudert Selma Carolin joint author EDOC 700 1- Reutner Leonie joint author EDOC 700 1- Greifeneder Rainer joint author EDOC 700 1- Walker Mirella joint author EDOC 773 0- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 68, pp. 101-112 0022-1031 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 EDOC EDOC EDOC Article