The preference for potential in competence, not in morality: Asymmetric biases regarding a group's potential for moral improvement and decline

• Zhijie Xie,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Center for Studies of Social Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, School of Psychology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, China

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• Fangfang Wen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Center for Studies of Social Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Xiao Tan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Center for Studies of Social Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Jin Wei,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Center for Studies of Social Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Bin Zuo

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zuobin@mail.ccnu.edu.cn

  Affiliations School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Center for Studies of Social Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9633-7067

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