The deflationary model of harm and moral wrongdoing: A rejoinder to Royzman & Borislow

Kürthy, Miklós and Sousa, Paulo (2024) The deflationary model of harm and moral wrongdoing: A rejoinder to Royzman & Borislow. Cognition, 244. ISSN 0010-0277

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Abstract

With a series of studies, Royzman and Borislow (2022) purport to show that extant models about the conditions under which harmful actions are deemed morally wrong do not have explanatory power—for any proposed condition, various harmful actions meet the condition but are not deemed immoral. And they reach the following conclusion: judgments of moral wrongdoing in the context of harmful actions (or judgments of moral wrongdoing more generally) are not reducible to an explanatory template. However, they did not address the main claim of the deflationary model of harm and moral wrongdoing, which is that intuitions of injustice connect harmful actions to judgments of moral wrongdoing (Sousa & Piazza, 2014). Our first study adjusts Royzman and Borislow’ design to include a measure of perceived injustice, while our second elaborates their design to manipulate perceived injustice. The results undermine their conclusion and support the deflationary model, which we further refine here in light of the results of Royzman and Borislow's studies and ours.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: harm,injustice,moral judgments,social cognition,wrongdoing,experimental and cognitive psychology,language and linguistics,developmental and educational psychology,linguistics and language,cognitive neuroscience ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3205
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 21 May 2024 12:30
Last Modified: 25 Sep 2024 17:49
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/95266
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105599

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