We describe a bias in moral judgment in which the mere existence of other victims reduces assessments of the harm suffered by each harmed individual. Three experiments support the seemingly paradoxical relationship between the number of harmed individuals and the perceived severity of the harming act. In Experiment 1a, participants expressed lower punitive intentions toward a perpetrator of an ...

Godly sorrow and despair were spiritual rather than corporeal and could only be overcome through God’s grace. Here the author looks to devotional literature and spiritual autobiographies, including much welcomed writing by women. Protestant theologians characterised godly sorrow as a positive, even joyous, experience. The physical body, particularly the broken, softened heart, provided a langua...

mental verbs are wanted to be uttered by concretizesing them in order to add power and beauty to the expression. These mental verbs are mostly expressed through metaphors. In Turkmen Turkish, abstract mental verbs have gained a metaphoric phraseology by simile and concretization. While concretizising and similing, elements from Turkish culture were used. Cultural differences between societies h...