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The logic of moral outrage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

Eric Luis Uhlmann
Eric Luis Uhlmann*
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Management and Human Resources Department, HEC Paris – School of Management, 78351 Jouy-en-Josas, France. eric.luis.uhlmann@gmail.comwww.socialjudgments.com
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Abstract

McCullough et al.'s functionalist model of revenge is highly compatible with the person-centered approach to moral judgment, which emphasizes the adaptive manner in which social perceivers derive character information from moral acts. Evidence includes act–person dissociations in which an act is seen as less immoral than a comparison act, yet as a clearer indicator of poor moral character.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 38
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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