Fig. 4: Characteristic function-weakening actions.
From: How social relationships shape moral wrongness judgments
Heatmap showing mean ratings of judges (n = 15) of the extent to which each action characteristically would neglect or violate (weaken) the care, hierarchy, mating, and reciprocity functions, respectively, between any two people (i.e., not assuming the relationship between “Person A” and “Person B” should in fact serve any of those functions). These items were chosen as experimental stimuli from a much larger set by an algorithm using the judges’ ratings, where −100 represents the most characteristic function-weakening effect (see Methods). Darker shades represent more extreme ratings. Note: when rating actions on the hierarchy dimension, judges were asked to imagine that Person A was in a subordinate role, specifically; when rating actions on the care dimension, judges were asked to imagine that Person A was in a caregiving (as opposed to care-seeking) role, specifically. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
