The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

A culpable control model is advanced to describe the conditions that encourage as well as
mitigate blame and to assess the process by which blame and mitigation occur. The …

Decision scientists have identified various plausible sources of ideological polarization over
climate change, gun violence, national security, and like issues that turn on empirical …

Moral psychology is a rapidly growing field with two principle lineages. The main line began
with Jean Piaget and includes developmental psychologists who have studied the …

Mind perception entails ascribing mental capacities to other entities, whereas moral
judgment entails labeling entities as good or bad or actions as right or wrong. We suggest …

One popular justification for punishment is the just deserts rationale: A person deserves
punishment proportionate to the moral wrong committed. A competing justification is the …

We introduce a theory of blame in five parts. Part 1 addresses what blame is: a unique moral
judgment that is both cognitive and social, regulates social behavior, fundamentally relies on …

A new approach for defining causality and such related notions as degree of responsibility,
degrees of blame, and causal explanation. Causality plays a central role in the way people …

Issues of social justice have been an important part of social psychology since the explosion
of psychological research that occurred during and after World War II. At that time …

Claims about people's intuitions have long played an important role in philosophical
debates. The new field of experimental philosophy seeks to subject such claims to rigorous …