"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
Just business? Moral condemnation and virtuous violence in the American and Russian mass publics
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DOI: 10.1177/00223433221149761
Abstract: More often than not, violence between states in the field of international relations is understood in instrumental terms. States are thought to act purposively in the pursuit of some tangible object, treating those in their… read more here.
Keywords: violence; american russian; moral condemnation; morality ... See more keywords