When the killing has been done: Exploring associations of personality with third-party judgment and punishment of homicides in moral dilemma scenarios.

Killing people is universally considered reprehensible and evokes in observers a need to punish perpetrators. Here, we explored how observers' personality is associated with their cognitive, emotional, and punishing reactions towards perpetrators using data from 1,004 participants who responded...

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Main Authors: Alexander Behnke, Anja Strobel, Diana Armbruster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235253