Research on morality has increased rapidly over the past 10 years. At the center of this
research are moral judgments—evaluative judgments that a perceiver makes in response to …

Responding to wrongdoing is a core feature of our social lives. Indeed, a central assumption
of modern institutional justice systems is that transgressors should be punished. In this …

Across societies, humans punish norm violations. To date, research on the antecedents and
consequences of punishment has largely relied upon agent-based modeling and laboratory …

Moral psychology uses tightly controlled scenarios in which the identities of the characters
are either unspecified or vague. Studies with raceless, genderless strangers help to …

Moral psychology has long debated whether moral judgment is rooted in harm versus affect.
We reconcile this debate with the affective harm account (AHA) of moral judgment. The AHA …

Norms permeate human life. Most of people's activities can be characterized by rules about
what is appropriate, allowed, required, or forbidden—rules that are crucial in making people …

While the body of literature on employees' reactions to their employer's corporate social
responsibility (CSR) has grown rapidly over the last decade, little is known regarding …

People have fundamental tendencies to punish immoral actors and treat close others
altruistically. What happens when these tendencies collide—do people punish or protect …

Social norms are commonly understood as rules that dictate which behaviors are
appropriate, permissible, or obligatory in different situations for members of a given …

This study investigated how employees react to corporate moral violations against external
stakeholders, such as customers, the community, and the environment. Drawing from the …