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Outcome-oriented moral evaluation in terrorists
Fecha
2017-05Registro en:
Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena; Herrera Murcia, Eduar; García, Adolfo Martín; Manes, Facundo Francisco; Young, Liane; et al.; Outcome-oriented moral evaluation in terrorists; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Human Behaviour; 1; 0118; 5-2017
2397-3374
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena
Herrera Murcia, Eduar
García, Adolfo Martín
Manes, Facundo Francisco
Young, Liane
Ibáñez Barassi, Agustín Mariano
Resumen
As shown by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, terrorism is one of the most pernicious threats to contemporary societies 1. In addition to obliterating the freedom and physical integrity of victims, terrorist practices can destabilize governments, undermine civil harmony and threaten economic development 1. This is tragically corroborated by the recent history of Colombia, a country marked by escalations of paramilitary terrorist violence 2. Although multiple disciplines are struggling to understand these atrocities, the contributions from cognitive science have been limited. Social cognition abilities 3,4,5,6,7 have been proposed as important variables in relation to criminal and violent profiles. Against this background, this study aimed to assess the moral judgements and social-cognitive profiles of 66 ex-combatants from a paramilitary terrorist group. We found that moral judgement in terrorists is abnormally guided by outcomes rather than by the integration of intentions and outcomes. This pattern was partially related to emotion recognition and proactive aggression scores but independent from other cognitive domains. In addition, moral judgement was the measure that best discriminated between terrorists and non-criminals.