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Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms
People experience a strong conflict while evaluating actors who unintentionally harmed someone—her innocent intention exonerating her, while the harmful outcome incriminating her. Different people solve this conflict differently, suggesting the presence of dispositional moderators of the way the con...
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author | Patil, Indrajeet Trémolière, Bastien |
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description | People experience a strong conflict while evaluating actors who unintentionally harmed someone—her innocent intention exonerating her, while the harmful outcome incriminating her. Different people solve this conflict differently, suggesting the presence of dispositional moderators of the way the conflict is processed. In the present research, we explore how reasoning ability and cognitive style relate to how people choose to resolve this conflict and judge accidental harms. We conducted three studies in which we utilized varied reasoning measures and populations. The results showed that individual differences in reasoning ability and cognitive style predicted severity of judgments in fictitious accidental harms scenarios, with better reasoners being less harsh in their judgments. Internal meta-analysis confirmed that this effect was robust only for accidental harms. We discuss the importance of individual differences in reasoning ability in the assessment of accidental harms. |
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spelling | pubmed-82779012021-07-15 Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms Patil, Indrajeet Trémolière, Bastien Sci Rep Article People experience a strong conflict while evaluating actors who unintentionally harmed someone—her innocent intention exonerating her, while the harmful outcome incriminating her. Different people solve this conflict differently, suggesting the presence of dispositional moderators of the way the conflict is processed. In the present research, we explore how reasoning ability and cognitive style relate to how people choose to resolve this conflict and judge accidental harms. We conducted three studies in which we utilized varied reasoning measures and populations. The results showed that individual differences in reasoning ability and cognitive style predicted severity of judgments in fictitious accidental harms scenarios, with better reasoners being less harsh in their judgments. Internal meta-analysis confirmed that this effect was robust only for accidental harms. We discuss the importance of individual differences in reasoning ability in the assessment of accidental harms. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8277901/ /pubmed/34257383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93908-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Patil, Indrajeet Trémolière, Bastien Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms |
title | Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms |
title_full | Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms |
title_fullStr | Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms |
title_full_unstemmed | Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms |
title_short | Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms |
title_sort | reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277901/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34257383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93908-z |
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