Introduction. Dossier: Moral Transgression

Institutions , Shared Guilt , and Moral Transgression ∗

We study how institutional design influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt and can share guilt with others. Institutions determine the number of supporters necessary for immoral outcomes to occur. With more supporters required, every supporter can share guilt more easily. This facilitates becoming a supporter. Conversely, an institution requiring more ...

Markets and Choice Economics of Change Institutions, Shared Guilt, and Moral Transgression Institutions, Shared Guilt, and Moral Transgression *

Institutions, Shared Guilt, and Moral Transgression* Dominik Rothenhäusler, Nikolaus Schweizer, and Nora Szech We study how institutional design influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt and can share guilt with others. Institutions determine the number of supporters necessary for immoral outcomes to occur. With more supporters required, every supporter...

Introduction: Dossier on Freight Transport and Logistics

Moral transgression and illness in the Early Modern North.

This article seeks to understand how people in the early modern age interpreted the nature of illness and the role that morality played in these interpretations. From this point of view illnesses were not only psycho-physical states or subjects for medical diagnosis but they were also subjects for narratives or stories through which people tried to understand what had caused their illness, and ...

Introduction: Moral Emotions

The claim that the psychological study of morality underwent a revolution at the beginning of the twenty-first century and that this revolution was an affective one is now commonplace: emotions, rather than reflection and reasoning from explicit moral principles, were suddenly supposed to play the prominent role in moral thought and behaviour (Haidt 2001, 2007). Though supporters of this revolu...