How much blame does he truly deserve? Historicist narratives engender uncertainty about blameworthiness, facilitating motivated cognition in moral judgment
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.03.008
Abstract: Abstract When reprehensible conduct is explicable in terms of the offender's life history or underlying biology, blame is mitigated. Despite their shared capacity for blame mitigation, here we focus on differences between historical and biological… read more here.
Keywords: blame; uncertainty blameworthiness; motivated cognition; uncertainty ... See more keywords