The Moralization of Health (Somogy Varga)
Institute for Intelligent Systems ERIC 306 3830 Norriswood Avenue, Memphis, TN, United StatesMoral judgments are known to influence seemingly descriptive assessments. Varga and colleagues show that individuals perceived as morally bad are more likely to be judged as unhealthy and diseased, a phenomenon termed “the pathologization effect”. Across three vignette-based experiments, we identify a complementary pattern: the “reverse pathologization effect”: participants were more likely to attribute bad […]