@article{ref1,
title="Modularity in everyday life judgments of aggression and violent behavior",
journal="Aggression and violent behavior",
year="2001",
author="Wolf, Yuval",
volume="6",
number="1",
pages="1-34",
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.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1359-1789",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}