Mens rea ascription, expertise and outcome effects: Professional judges surveyed

M Kneer, S Bourgeois-Gironde - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
A coherent practice of mens rea ('guilty mind') ascription in criminal law presupposes a
concept of mens rea which is insensitive to the moral valence of an action's outcome. For …

The dark side of morality: Prioritizing sanctity over care motivates denial of mind and prejudice toward sexual outgroups.

AE Monroe, EA Plant - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Moral values bind communities together and foster cooperation, yet these same values can
lead to the derogation and marginalization of outgroups. Five studies tested a theoretical …

[HTML][HTML] Outcome effects, moral luck and the hindsight bias

M Kneer, I Skoczeń - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
In a series of ten preregistered experiments (N= 2043), we investigate the effect of outcome
valence on judgments of probability, negligence, and culpability–a phenomenon sometimes …

Causation and the silly norm effect

L Güver, M Kneer - Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law, 2023 - torrossa.com
Whereas in certain domains, the law relies on terms of art (eg,“injunction,”“double
jeopardy,”“punitive damages,” and “bankruptcy”), in others—in particular in criminal law—it …

The pervasive impact of ignorance

L Kirfel, J Phillips - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Norm violations have been demonstrated to impact a wide range of seemingly non-
normative judgments. Among other things, when agents' actions violate prescriptive norms …

Cross-Cultural universality of knowledge attributions

Y Yuan, M Kim - 2018 - philpapers.org
We provide new findings that add to the growing body of empirical evidence that important
epistemic intuitions converge across cultures. Specifically, we selected three recent studies …

Agents' moral character shapes people's moral evaluations of accidental harm transgressions

F Schwartz, H Djeriouat, B Trémolière - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous research has documented that judging an agent causing an accident mainly relies
on considerations about the outcome endured by the victim and the intention to cause harm …

The folk concept of intentional action: Empirical approaches

F Cova - A companion to experimental philosophy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter provides a critical though comprehensive review of the empirical literature on
the folk concept of intentional action. Recently, experimental evidence suggested that …

Normativity in joint action

J Gomez‐Lavin, M Rachar - Mind & Language, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The debate regarding the nature of joint action has come to a stalemate due to a
dependence on intuitional methods. Normativists, such as Margaret Gilbert, argue that …

Cross-cultural convergence of knowledge attribution in East Asia and the US

Y Yuan, M Kim - Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we provide new findings that add to the growing body of empirical evidence
that important epistemic intuitions converge across cultures. Specifically, we selected three …