"If You Love Me Keep My Commandments": Religiosity Increases Preference for Rule-Based Moral Arguments

Two experiments demonstrated that religiosity affects the way people resolve moral dilemmas. Participants were presented a series of immoral actions and were asked to justify the wrongness of the action by appealing to either the violation of a rule (rule-based argument) or the negative consequences...

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Main Author: Piazza, Jared (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2012
In: The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 285-302
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