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Cognitive processes in imaginative moral shifts: How judgments of morally unacceptable actions change.

How do people come to consider a morally unacceptable action, such as "a passenger in an airplane does not want to sit next to a Muslim passenger and so he tells the stewardess the passenger must be moved to another seat", to be less unacceptable? We propose they tend to imagine counterfactual alter...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 1103 - 1124
Main Authors: Tepe, Beyza, Byrne, Ruth M. J.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jul2022
Subjects:
Judgment (Psychology)
Ethics
Behavior
Mental health
Imagination
Thought & thinking
Cognitive testing
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