A5090168618- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Law in Society and Culture
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Education and Islamic Studies
- Historical and Architectural Studies
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies
Vilnius University
2021-2022
Universidad de Granada
2021
A cross-cultural survey experiment revealed a dominant tendency to rely on rule’s letter over its spirit when deciding which behaviors violate the rule. This varied markedly across ( k = 15) countries, owing variation in impact of moral appraisals judgments rule violation. Compared with laypeople, legal experts were more inclined disregard their evaluations acts altogether and consequently exhibited stronger textualist tendencies. Finally, we evaluated plausible mechanism for emergence...
Abstract Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have argued that laws share certain abstract features even speculated law may be a human universal. In present report, we evaluate this thesis through an experiment administered 11 different countries. Are there cross‐cultural principles law? between‐subjects design, participants ( N = 3,054) were asked whether could violate procedural (e.g., applied retrospectively or unintelligible laws), also...
Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have often argued that laws share certain abstract features even speculated law may be a human universal. In present report, we contribute cross-cultural data to this debate: Are there principles law? Participants eleven different countries (N = 3054) were asked whether could violate procedural (e.g., applied retrospectively or unintelligible laws), also are any such laws—in between-subjects design....
Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have often argued that laws share certain abstract features even speculated law may be a human universal. In present report, we contribute cross-cultural data to this debate: Are there principles law? Participants eleven different countries (N = 3054) were asked whether could violate procedural (e.g., applied retrospectively or unintelligible laws), also are any such laws—in between-subjects design....
A cross-cultural survey experiment revealed a general tendency to rely on rule’s text over its purpose when deciding which acts violate the rule. This tendency’s strength varied markedly across (k = 13) field sites, owing cultural differences in impact of moral appraisals judgments rule violation. Next, we observed that legal experts were more strongly inclined disregard their evaluations altogether, and they consequently demonstrated stronger textualist tendencies than did laypeople....