Specks of dirt and tons of pain: Dosage distinguishes impurity from harm

J Rottman, L Young - Psychological Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Levels of moral condemnation often vary with outcome severity (eg, extreme destruction is
morally worse than moderate damage), but this is not always true. We investigated whether …

Are rules meant to be broken? When and why consistent rule-following undermines versus enhances trust

MW White, EE Levine, AC Kristal - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
Although consistency has long been positioned as a cornerstone of trust, the present paper
examines when and why consistent rule-following undermines versus enhances trust …

Moral preference reversals: Violations of procedure invariance in moral judgments of sacrificial dilemmas

JF Landy, BA Lemli, P Shah, AD Perry, R Sager - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
In this research, we examine whether moral judgments sometimes violate the normative
principle of procedure invariance–that is, whether normatively equivalent elicitation tasks …

Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive

J Lees, L Young, A Waytz - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine how actors think others perceive their morally questionable behavior (moral
meta-perception) across a diverse set of real-world moral violations. Utilizing a novel …

Rules are (often) meant to be broken: The effects of discretion and consistent rule-following on interpersonal trust

M White, E Levine, A Kristal - 2023 - osf.io
Although consistency has long been positioned as a cornerstone of trust, we explore
situations in which consistency undermines trust. Across one pilot study and seven …

A dollar is a dollar is a dollar, or is it? Insights from children's reasoning about “dirty money”

A Tasimi, SA Gelman - Cognitive Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Money can take many forms—a coin or a bill, a payment for an automobile or a prize for an
award, a piece from the 1989 series or the 2019 series, and so on—but despite this, money …

The neural correlates of moral comparison

X Wen, J **e, JS Cant, Y **ang, X Fang, J Lin… - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Moral comparison supports the moral judgment that then evaluates social behaviors and
restrains social interactions. However, previous studies have not investigated what neural …

Factors guiding moral judgment, reason, decision, and action.

A Wiegmann, M Osman - 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The field of moral psychology has become increasingly popular in recent years. This
editorial introduces the special issue focusing on the topic of moral agency. This special is …