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SUBMITTER: Barrett HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4855604 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barrett H Clark HC Bolyanatz Alexander A Crittenden Alyssa N AN Fessler Daniel M T DM Fitzpatrick Simon S Gurven Michael M Henrich Joseph J Kanovsky Martin M Kushnick Geoff G Pisor Anne A Scelza Brooke A BA Stich Stephen S von Rueden Chris C Zhao Wanying W Laurence Stephen S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160328 17
Intent and mitigating circumstances play a central role in moral and legal assessments in large-scale industrialized societies. Although these features of moral assessment are widely assumed to be universal, to date, they have only been studied in a narrow range of societies. We show that there is substantial cross-cultural variation among eight traditional small-scale societies (ranging from hunter-gatherer to pastoralist to horticulturalist) and two Western societies (one urban, one rural) in ...[more]