TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Harm concerns predict moral judgments of suicide: Comment on Rottman, Kelemen and Young (2014)
JO  - Cognition
A1  - Gray, Kurt
SP  - 329
EP  - 331
VL  - 133
IS  - 1
N2  - Two prominent theories offer different perspectives on the role of harm in moral cognition. Dyadic morality suggests that harm-related concerns are pervasive, whereas moral pluralism suggests that these concerns apply only to canonically harmful violations (e.g., murder), and not impure violations (e.g., suicide). Rottman et al. (2014) contrast these two theories by examining moral judgments of suicide. They conclude that suicide wrongness is independent of harm, therefore arguing against dyadic morality and for moral pluralism. However, these conclusions may be overstated; across all these studies, a meta-analysis reveals that harm is a significant predictor of suicide judgments. Moreover, the association between harm and suicide wrongness may be suppressed in individual studies by insufficient power, restrictive exclusion criteria, a single bivariate outlier, and reliance upon the conventional significance threshold of p<.05. In revised analyses harm is robustly associated with suicide wrongness, consistent with dyadic morality.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0010-0277
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.06.007
ID  - ref1
ER  -