Benefiting from misfortune: When harmless actions are judged to be morally blameworthy [Dataset]

DOI

Dominant theories of moral blame require an individual to have caused or intended harm. However, the current four studies demonstrate cases where no harm is caused or intended, yet individuals are nonetheless deemed worthy of blame. Specifically, individuals are judged to be blameworthy when they engage in actions that enable them to benefit from another’s misfortune (e.g., betting that a company’s stock will decline or that a natural disaster will occur). Evidence is presented suggesting that perceptions of the actor’s wicked desires are responsible for this phenomenon. It is argued that these results are consistent with a growing literature demonstrating that moral judgments are often the product of evaluations of character in addition to evaluations of acts.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/2PKMU1
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/2PKMU1
Provenance
Creator Y. Inbar; D. A. Pizarro; F. Cushman
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Y. Inbar; DataverseNL
Publication Year 2013
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
OpenAccess false
Contact Y. Inbar
Representation
Resource Type Experimental Survey Data; Dataset
Format application/pdf; application/octet-stream
Size 131910; 1030681
Version 5.0
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences