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Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment
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Significance: It is widely considered a universal feature of human moral psychology that reasons for actions are taken into account in most moral judgments. However, most evidence for this moral intent hypothesis comes from large-scale industrialized societies. We used a standardized methodology to test the moral intent hypothesis across eight traditional small-scale societies (ranging from hunter-gatherer to pastoralist to horticulturalist) and two Western societies (one urban, one rural). The results show substantial variation in the degree to which an individual’s intentions influence moral judgments of his or her actions, with intentions in some cases playing no role at all. This dimension of cross-cultural variation in moral judgment may have important implications for understanding cultural disagreements over wrongdoing.
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- Barrett, H. C., Bolyanatz, A., Crittenden, A. N., Fessler, D. M. T., Fitzpatrick, S., Gurven, M., Henrich, J., Kanovsky, M., Kushnick, G., Pisor, A., Scelza, B. A., Stich, S., von Rueden, C., Zhao, W., & Laurence, S.
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2016-03-28
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 4688-4693
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2314545043
- Cited by
- 339
- References
- 21
- FWCI
- 17.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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