How not to combine ethnography and experiments in the study of moral judgment
In his latest blog post, Hugo Mercier, discusses Clark Barrett et al.’s paper in PNAS: “Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment.” [´1] Unlike Hugo, I don’t find this piece of work fascinating. In fact, given that excellent scholars I ...
Cultural variation in the mitigation of moral judgments
A few weeks back, Clark Barrett and his colleagues published a fascinating piece in PNAS in cultural variations in moral judgments. They found wide cultural variation in the factors people take into account to mitigate bad behavior. For instance, it seems natural to us, WEIRD people, that intent ...