This study examines the defensive attribution hypothesis in the context of a product-harm crisis. A high severity product-harm crisis results in more blame to the company and less blame to the consumer than does a low severity crisis, although this attributional pattern is more evident when the crisis is associated with an unfamiliar brand. A model then reveals personal vulnerability to be an a...

Abstract This paper develops a novel account of the nature blame: on this account, blame is species performance with constitutive aim. The argument for claim that an action speech-act theoretic: it relies performatives and parallelism between mental spoken blame. I argue view scores well prior plausibility theoretical fruitfulness, in that: rests claims are widely accepted across sub-discipline...

A central issue in practical philosophy concerns the relation between moral blameworthiness and normative reasons. As there has been little of direct exchange debate on reasons blameworthiness, this topic not received attention it deserves. In paper, I consider two notions about that are fundamental respective field. The might seem incontrovertible when considered individually, but argue they t...

This paper examines the hypothesis of modular judgment in the context of attribution of blame to rape victims. Modular judgment was operationalized using blame schemata suited to judgment of everyday aggression. Subjects were 72 individuals, 36 therapists and 36 non-therapists; half were men and half women. Each subject was presented with written descriptions of four rapes, which included infor...