Attainable and Relevant Moral Exemplars Are More Effective than Extraordinary Exemplars in Promoting Voluntary Service Engagement

dc.contributor.authorHan, Hyemin
dc.contributor.authorKim, Jeongmin
dc.contributor.authorJeong, Changwoo
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Geoffrey L.
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.contributor.otherSeoul National University (SNU)
dc.contributor.otherStanford University
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T21:06:28Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T21:06:28Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe present study aimed to develop effective moral educational interventions based on social psychology by using stories of moral exemplars. We tested whether motivation to engage in voluntary service as a form of moral behavior was better promoted by attainable and relevant exemplars or by unattainable and irrelevant exemplars. First, experiment 1, conducted in a lab, showed that stories of attainable exemplars more effectively promoted voluntary service activity engagement among undergraduate students compared with stories of unattainable exemplars and non-moral stories. Second, experiment 2, a middle school classroom-level experiment with a quasi-experimental design, demonstrated that peer exemplars, who are perceived to be attainable and relevant to students, better promoted service engagement compared with historic figures in moral education classes.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationHan, H., Kim, J., Jeong, C., & Cohen, G. L. (2017). Attainable and Relevant Moral Exemplars Are More Effective than Extraordinary Exemplars in Promoting Voluntary Service Engagement. In Frontiers in Psychology (Vol. 8). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00283
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00283
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7181-2565
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/12015
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectmoral exemplar
dc.subjectpsychological interventions
dc.subjectmoral education
dc.subjectprosocial motivation
dc.subjectattainability
dc.subjectrelevance
dc.subjectservice engagement
dc.subjectETHICAL DECISION-MAKING
dc.subjectMODEL SIMILARITY
dc.subjectSELF
dc.subjectBEHAVIOR
dc.subjectPOWER
dc.subjectPERSUASION
dc.subjectELEVATION
dc.subjectIMITATION
dc.subjectSTUDENTS
dc.subjectPEER
dc.subjectPsychology, Multidisciplinary
dc.titleAttainable and Relevant Moral Exemplars Are More Effective than Extraordinary Exemplars in Promoting Voluntary Service Engagementen_US
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