Moral agency is the capacity to do right or wrong, whereas moral patiency is the capacity to be a target of right or wrong. Through 7 studies, the authors explored moral typecasting—an inverse relation between perceptions of moral agency and moral patiency. Across a range of targets and situations, goodand evil-doers (moral agents) were perceived to be less vulnerable to having good and evil do...

Although we live in a modern world dominated in many ways by the rationality of science and technology, age-old millennial beliefs in the supernatural, good and evil, a coming apocalyptic upheaval, and a day of judgment are still widely held throughout the world. Even among non-religious people, similar beliefs exist, especially in political ideologies. Focusing on evil, I contend that most evi...

cial pneumothorax demands consideration both for its good and evil effects. Some of its good effects are : the fixation of the mobile mediastinum thus affording better collapse, the closure of the basal cavity, the increase of interval between the fills by better retention of gas, and the initiation of better fibrosis by ' auto-tuberculin reaction None of these, of course, is an unmixed good, b...