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On the difference between moral outrage and empathic anger: Anger about wrongful deeds or harmful consequences
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“Moreover, empathetic anger motivates observers to safeguard victims' interests by seeking to undo harm, provide compensation, and punish offenders (Batson et al., 2007;Hechler & Kessler, 2018).”
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- Authors
- Hechler, S., & Kessler, T.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-05
- Volume
- 76
- Pages
- 270-282
- ISSN
- 0022-1031
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 11
- Language
- en
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (KE 792/4-1)
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