Modularity in everyday life judgments of aggression and violent behavior |
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| Institution: | 1. HEC Management School, University of Liège, Liège 4000, Belgium;2. Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 219 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA;3. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA;4. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven, MB Eindhoven, 5600, The Netherlands;1. Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA 02118, USA;2. Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico/National Institute on Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñíz, Calzada México-Xochimilco No. 101, Colonia San Lorenzo Huipulco, Delegacion Tlalpan, México, D.F. 14570, Mexico;3. Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Edifico “F” Primer Piso. Circuito Escolar S/N. Ciudad Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacan, México, D.F. 04510, Mexico;4. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA 02118, USA;5. Data Coordinating Center, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA 02118, USA;6. Department of Psychiatry and Alcohol Research Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Ave., Farmington, CT 06030, USA;7. General Medical Services, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Circuito Escolar S-N Ciudad Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacan, México, D.F. 04510, Mexico;1. The RAND Corporation, 1200 South Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202, United States;2. George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, Campus Box 1196, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States |
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| Abstract: | This review focuses on one aspect of moral judgment of aggression and violent behavior in the context of the psychodynamics of everyday life: Judgmental modularity. The central hypothesis asserts that, from the victim's perspective, the severity of judgments or the relative weight assigned to physical damage, when information on intent and damage is available, will be maximized, whereas inverse trends will typify the judgments of the same person from the assailant's perspective. This view resembles the spirit of the functional approach to moral judgment of violent behavior. In this light, related studies that were conducted within the framework of functional measurement are reviewed. Judgmental modularity was documented in the majority of the findings. However, in two studies, the same participants exhibited judgmental consistency in the first phase and judgmental modularity in a second phase, which manipulated other types of judgmental perspectives. Implications for the issue of judgmental modularity, for the issue of modularity in violent behavior and for a proposal to establish a functional definition of aggression are discussed. |
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