Moral appraisals guide intuitive legal determinations.
Brian FlanaganGuilherme da F C F de AlmeidaNoel StruchinerIvar R HannikainenPublished in: Law and human behavior (2023)
Under intuitive reasoning conditions, legal determinations draw on core competencies in moral cognition, such as outcome-based and mental state reasoning. In turn, cognitive reflection dampens these effects on statutory interpretation, allowing text to play a more influential role. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).