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T1 What do people mean when speaking of evilness?
A1 Morera Bello, María Dolores
A1 Quiles del Castillo, María de las Nieves
A1 Correa Piñero, María Ana Delia
A1 Leyens, Jacques Philippe
K1 Aggression
K1 Evilness
K1 Harm
AB The term evilness started to become popular in social psychology after the publication in 1999 of the special issue edited by Arthur G. Miller, “Perspectives on evil and violence”. It is usually used to define behaviors that are extremely and strongly harmful. However, the concept is still imprecise and needs to be empirically delineated. This article attempts to answer the following questions. What is evilness? What is the difference between aggression and evilness? We conducted several studies with three goals: to analyze how laypersons and experts define evilness, to verify whether laypeople distinguish between different intensities of evilness, and to determine the dimensions that predict aggression and evilness. The results offer preliminary answers to the three questions.
SN 1138-7416
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35237
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35237
LA en
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 04-jun-2024