From variability to vulnerability: people exposed to greater variability judge wrongdoers more harshly

• Main Authors: Ding, Yu, Savani, Krishna
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Business::Management; Moral Judgment; Punishment
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161278
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Recent decades have seen increased variability in diverse domains, such as the climate and asset prices. As more resources are required to cope with greater variability in the outside world, exposure to greater variability can make people feel that society is more vulnerable. This sense of vulnerabi...