ludzkie-ciekawostki: Romanticism

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Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity, imagination, and appreciation of nature in society and culture in response to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Romanticists rejected the social conventions of the time in favour of a moral outlook known as individualism. They argued that passion and intuition were crucial to understanding the world, and that beauty is more than merely an affair of form, but rather something that evokes a strong emotional response. With th…

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Perpetrators are condemned more when they know, rather than merely believe, they will cause harm. Are the perpetrators of an offense condemned more if they know, rather than merely believe, that their actions will cause harm? In three experiments, we tested how the epistemic status of perpetrators’ belief influences condemnation. In Experiment 1, we found that when perpetrators falsely believed their actions would not cause harm, justification for that false belief reduced condemnation relative to holding an unjustified false belief. In contrast, when perpetrators correctly believed their actions would cause harm, justification for that true belief increased condemnation relative to holding…