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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
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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