"Internally Wicked": Investigating How and Why Essentialism Influences Punitiveness and Moral Condemnation
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12991
Abstract: Kant argued that individuals should be punished "proportional to their internal wickedness," and recent work has demonstrated that essentialism-the notion that observable characteristics reflect internal, biological, unchanging "essences"-influences moral judgment. However, these efforts have yielded… read more here.
Keywords: moral condemnation; essentialism influences; biology; moral judgment ... See more keywords