Systematic bias in trait attributions for deceased friends and relatives

• Main Authors: Galang, Adrianne John Real, Ellescas, Bianca Ysabel C., Santos, Jan Marie E., Locsin, Maria Aisha V., Sy, Keena Mayumi D.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Traits; Person perception
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86299; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43990
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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 possibility that person per...