Moral Judgment
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 7 (2) , 218-223
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616728172006
Abstract
In order to determine when ethical ideology influences judgments of morality, individuals who endorsed an absolutist, exceptionist, subjectivist, or situationist ideology morally evaluated an actor linked, at varying levels of responsibility, to positive or negative outcomes. As predicted, absolutists judged the actor more harshly than exceptionists, but only when the described actor has foreseen or intended to produce a highly negative consequence.Keywords
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