A Lack of Material Resources Causes Harsher Moral Judgments
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A lack of material resources causes harsher moral judgments.
In the research presented here, we tested the idea that a lack of material resources (e.g., low income) causes people to make harsher moral judgments because a lack of material resources is associated with a lower ability to cope with the effects of others' harmful behavior. Consistent with this idea, results from a large cross-cultural survey (Study 1) showed that both a chronic (due to low in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0956-7976,1467-9280
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613514092