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

Berit Brogaard

doi:10.1017/S0140525X1000169X

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

Berit Brogaard

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	332-334
Number of pages	3
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	33
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1000169X
State	Published - Aug 1 2010
Externally published	Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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