Abstract In a 2020 article in Analysis, Lippert-Rasmussen argues that the moral equality account of hypocrite’s lack standing to blame fails. To object this account, considers contrary hypocrisy: hypercrisy. article, I show if hypercrisy is problem for it also Lippert-Rasmussen’s own why hypocrites blame. then reflect on and hypercrite’s self-blame, which reveals challenge poses accounts differ...

Abstract I investigate: (1) to what extent do folk ascriptions of lying differ between casual and courtroom contexts? (2) does motive (reason) lie influence trust, mental states, judgments? (3) are judgments consistent with previous communicated content? Following the Supreme Court’s Bronston judgment, expect: averaged be similar in contexts; levels states ascriptions, patterns judgments; retro...

This paper investigates a problem of 'state dependency'. People who have been unemployed in the past are much more likely than others to become unemployed in the future. But is it unemployment itself that causes future unemployment or is there something else, some measured or unmeasured form of heterogeneity, in individual characteristics or environmental circumstances, that causes both the pas...

This study investigates the influence of players’ performance and level of skill on responsibility attributions in groups. Participants act as external judges and evaluate the performance of teams of differently skilled players who compete in a darts game. The results show that both performance and skill influence responsibility attributions. Poor performance elicits high blame and low credit r...

Two experiments tested participants' attributions for others' immoral behaviors when conducted for more versus less money. We hypothesized and found that observers would blame wrongdoers more when seeing a transgression enacted for little rather than a lot of money, and that this would be evident in observers' hand-washing behavior. Experiment 1 used a cognitive dissonance paradigm. Participant...

iabetes mellitus portends excessive adverse clinical outomes for coronary artery disease (CAD) patients, including hose undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) 1–5). Causes for adverse outcomes in diabetic patients nclude more stent hyperplasia (3), smaller vessels, greater ascular inflammation, a higher thrombotic state, type of iabetic treatment (oral vs. insulin), and severe diff...