... blocks of vignettes about potential COVID exposure scenarios, we investigated the effects of moral judgment, importance, and intentionality on COVID infection risk assessments. Results demonstrate that risk judgments are sensitive to factors unrelated to the objective risks of infection. Specifically...

... and confront it to how people actually update character attributions. Here, we present, parameterize, and empirically test several Bayesian and averaging models of character-based moral judgment over multiple pieces of morally relevant or distractor information. Taken as a whole, results from two experiments...

... prosocial motivation responsibility moral judgment empathy help Within evolutionary analysis, blameworthiness of the sufferer is one of the main factors that modulate the observer’s reaction to others’ suffering (Goetz et al., 2010) . In particular, the degree to which a person is perceived...