PSYCH232 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Darth Vader, Dr. Evil, Intentionality
13 May 2015
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Common theme of the 4 (construal: how we make sense of things) Dimensions of evil: evil is in the eye of the beholder (subjective) creates controversy, evil is interpretive part of the construal process - Evil is a label labeling can be automatic: characteristics of the evil label: Category defining it"s hard to be a little bit evil (you are evil or you are not) Evaluative good vs bad (underlying value judgement when attributing evil to a person) Explanatory implies certain things about the origin of a person"s evil (why did this happen/ why did this person do this: when and how do people use other labels, prototypes and feature matching: Feature matching comparing the new product against the prototype: what are the features of the prototype of evil , harm focuses on the event and the victim. A lot of faiths understand evil as broken relationships. Severity/and extremity matters: intentionality focuses on the perpetrator.
