Why do victims sometimes receive sympathy for their suffering and at other times scorn and blame? Here we show a powerful role for moral values in attitudes toward victims. We measured moral values associated with unconditionally prohibiting harm (“individualizing values”) versus moral values associated with prohibiting behavior that destabilizes groups and relationships (“binding values”: loya...

The purpose of this research is to test whether descriptive norms, or cognitions about typical beliefs, values, and behaviors of one’s group, can explain cultural influence in the domains of blame attribution and harm perception. In Study 1, using participants from the United States and South Korea, the authors find that individuals with lower (vs. higher) collectivistic descriptive norms ascri...

Abstract In a 2020 article in Analysis, Lippert-Rasmussen argues that the moral equality account of hypocrite’s lack standing to blame fails. To object this account, considers contrary hypocrisy: hypercrisy. article, I show if hypercrisy is problem for it also Lippert-Rasmussen’s own why hypocrites blame. then reflect on and hypercrite’s self-blame, which reveals challenge poses accounts differ...