The Morally Good Bias
A study found that when subjects were asked to think about criminal offenders, people were more willing to say that a person’s true self is morally bad.
The more people think that a person’s true self is morally bad, the more they support retributive punishment. The idea that the true self is just inherently, morally good is a bias that we have.
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