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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Moral Psychology

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  • Traditional accounts of blame often equate it with conscious judgments or beliefs.
  • These accounts struggle to explain blame's irrationality and emotional sting.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To clarify ambiguities in blame-talk.
  • To develop a new account of blame that incorporates its emotional and irrational aspects.
  • To challenge existing cognitive-level theories of blame.

Main Methods:

  • Drawing on appraisal theory and cognitive psychology of emotion.
  • Analyzing the structure of blame as involving first-order emotions and second-order attitudes.
  • Conceptual analysis of blame-talk.

Main Results:

  • Blame is characterized by hostile, negative first-order emotions.
  • These emotions are accompanied by a second-order feeling of entitlement.
  • This feeling of entitlement signifies that the negative emotions are considered deserved by the object of blame.

Conclusions:

  • Blame is fundamentally emotional, not purely cognitive.
  • Existing accounts identifying blame with conscious beliefs are insufficient.
  • A new model of blame integrates emotional responses with a sense of deservedness.