The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

Research on morality has increased rapidly over the past 10 years. At the center of this
research are moral judgments—evaluative judgments that a perceiver makes in response to …

We performed an exhaustive meta-analysis of 73 peer-reviewed journal articles on syntactic
priming from the seminal Bock (1986) paper through 2013. Extracting the effect size for each …

Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

There is a gap between morality as experienced and morality as studied. In our personal
and professional lives, moral judgments are embedded within a specific context. We know …

Employing the universe of juvenile court decisions in a US state between 1996 and 2012,
we analyze the effects of emotional shocks associated with unexpected outcomes of football …

The article discusses problems with bias in relation to the reproducibility of research results.
Topics include psychological aspects of scientific research in relation to asymmetric …

Academic Abstract The idea of “purity” transformed moral psychology. Here, we provide the
first systematic review of this concept. Although often discussed as one construct, we reveal …

Behavioral scientists enjoy vast methodological freedom in how they operationalize
theoretical constructs. This freedom may promote creativity in designing laboratory …

Moral psychology has long debated whether moral judgment is rooted in harm versus affect.
We reconcile this debate with the affective harm account (AHA) of moral judgment. The AHA …