Systematic bias in trait attributions for deceased friends and relatives

• Main Authors: Galang, Adrianne John R., Ellescas, Bianca Ysabel C., Santos, Jan Marie E., Locsin, Maria Aisha V., Sy, Keena Mayumi D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/781; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/1780/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Bering (2006) put forward the claim that the deceased are viewed as authoritative moral figures, and Bering, MacLeod, and Shackelford (2005) present evidence supporting this. We extend Bering's conjecture through a within-subjects quasi-experimental study testing the possibi...