{"pk":25516,"title":"Mental states are more important in evaluating moral than conventional violations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A perpetrator’s mental state – whether she had mens rea or a\n“guilty mind” – typically plays an important role in evaluating\nwrongness and assigning punishment. In two experiments, we\nfind that this role for mental states is weaker in evaluating\nconventional violations relative to moral violations. We also\nfind that this diminished role for mental states may be\nassociated with the fact that conventional violations are\nwrong by virtue of having violated a (potentially arbitrary)\nrule, whereas moral violations are also wrong inherently","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"decision making"},{"word":"violations"},{"word":"mental states"},{"word":"moral\nevaluation"},{"word":"Punishment"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8kv8g8hx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Carly","middle_name":"","last_name":"Giffin","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCB","department":""},{"first_name":"Tania","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lombrozo","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCB","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25516/galley/15140/download/"}]}