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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"moral transgressions"”.
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Practicing Against What You Preach: A Social Values Perspective on Moral Hypocrisy
There is very little extant research on moral hypocrisy. As such, there are many definitional and theoretical issues that have yet to be addressed. Thus far, there are two working definitions of moral hypocrisy: (a) the motivation to appear moral, but avoid the consequences of behaving morally and …
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Perceptions of agency : untangling the knotty web of Al
… such as who is responsible when an Al makes a moral transgression? This thesis takes a discursive and empirical approach to reifying Al as a specific network of human actors with real world outcomes. It explores the phenomenon of anthropormophization, by which Al is endowed with human-like …
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Chinese children's evaluation of authority's responses to social events
Chinese children's conceptualization of moral, conventional and personal events and their judgments of authority were examined by assessing their evaluation of authority's responses to these acts. Seventy-two Macau children from second, fifth and eighth grades made judgments of permissibility of …
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Brutus' Ignoble Mind: a Cognitive Approach to the Tragedy of Julius Caesar
… model and the model of hamartia as moral flaw lack the depth to account for the complexity of the play. Julius Caesar is a complex tragedy, all three models woven together is such a way as to make the tragic causation ambiguous; the combination of Brutus' practical mistakes, his …
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The Morally Contaminating (and Motivating) Influence of Hate Groups in the U.S.
… In this thesis, we explore how people react with moral outrage and moral cleansing toward hate groups’ moral transgressions of racial egalitarianism—a strong sacred value among those who desire group-based equality. Across two experiments, we find that people perceive hate groups as immoral social …
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Children's evaluations of moral and conventional retaliations
… effectively interpret and justify situations of moral provocation and retaliation and that their disapproval of provocation increases with age (Astor, 1994; Smetana, Campione-Barr & Yell, 2003). The current study aimed to discover whether children judge moral provocation and retaliation as worse …
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Exploring the cultural understanding of mental illness: A study in the Ovaherero community, Opuwo urban area, Namibia
… as an affliction interwoven with spiritual, moral, and social dimensions, often attributed to causes such as witchcraft, ancestral displeasure, and moral transgressions. Aggression, disorientation, and neglect of personal hygiene emerged as common indicators of mental illness. Perceptions …
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Within Double Restraint: The Dialectics & Aesthetics of Erotic [Re]presentation in African Cinema
… is, a restrained response to its communities’ moral codes, and the West’s voyeuristic and fetishistic scopic intrusion towards the Black body. Protectionist conceptions towards sexuality in both African cinema as well as in Black feminist scholarship are partial responses of colonialism’s …
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From Myth to Meth: Viewing the American Small Town Through the Lens of Psychoanalytica Fantasy
… and rural areas, a certain corpus of social and moral values, as well as social and moral transgressions, emerge in association with the small town that often supersede these differences. Deployed for ideological purposes, the small town becomes less a specific place than it is an abstract …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
… indigenous spirits or God) for an individual's moral transgressions. The understanding that immorality is linked to misfortune is so tightly woven into the fabric of social life that people define this axiom as a 'commandment', linking it to biblical scripture, as well as to their own identity …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
… indigenous spirits or God) for an individual's moral transgressions. The understanding that immorality is linked to misfortune is so tightly woven into the fabric of social life that people define this axiom as a 'commandment', linking it to biblical scripture, as well as to their own identity …
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Two Essays on Consumer Responses to (Un)Ethical Brand Behavior
… Than High-Ability Brands Following Identical Moral Transgressions,” focuses on consumers’ post-transgression support for brands that are well- intentioned or high-ability. I find that consumers consistently show greater support for a well-intentioned brand, because they are able to separate …
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Physical and Social Threats Fortify Moral Judgements
Moral judgements are often believed to be firmly grounded in rational thought. However, scholars have discovered that moral considerations are responsive to individual and contextual factors, such as contamination and disease threats. Indeed, the role of disgust and disease threats on amplifying …