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“Stupid people deserve what they get”: The effects of personality assessment on judgments of intentional action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Berit Brogaard
Berit Brogaard
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and Department of Psychology, University of Missouri–St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121-4400. brogaardb@umsl.eduhttp://sites.google.com/site/brogaardb/
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Abstract

Knobe argues that people's judgments of the moral status of a side-effect of action influence their assessment of whether the side-effect is intentional. I tested this hypothesis using vignettes akin to Knobe's but involving economically or eudaimonistically (wellness-related) negative side-effects. My results show that it is people's sense of what agents deserve, and not the moral status of side-effects, that drives intuition.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 332 - 334
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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