A passion for respect: On understanding the role of human needs and morality |
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Authors: | David De Cremer Laetitia B Mulder |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Center of Justice and Social Decision Making, P.O. Box 90153, 5000-LE Tilburg, the Netherlands |
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Abstract: | In the present paper, we stress the importance of the concept respect in a wide variety of social settings and provide a working
definition of this concept by emphasizing how respect relates to the act of communicating full recognition to other people
on the dimensions of belongingness and morality. Subsequently, in two separate parts, we discuss why respect is so desired
and valued. The first part looks at respect as a means to fulfil important human social concerns (“respect as a means to an
end”). The second part looks at the potential moral underpinnings of respect and thus interprets “respect as an end in itself.”
Finally, it is suggested that both reasons to value respect explain respect effects as a function of the working selfconcept
that is salient (i.e., pragmatic versus idealistic self).
Laetitia B. Mulder is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Tilburg University. Her research interests are social decision
making, sanctions and rewards, moral norms, compliance, and norm internalization. |
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Keywords: | respect needs belongingness self-esteem morality |
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