The roles of dehumanization and moral outrage in retributive justice.

When innocents are intentionally harmed, people are motivated to see that offenders get their "just deserts". The severity of the punishment they seek is driven by the perceived magnitude of the harm and moral outrage. The present research extended this model of retributive justice by inco...

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Main Authors: Brock Bastian, Thomas F Denson, Nick Haslam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23626737/pdf/?tool=EBI