MORAL JUDGMENT AND CONSEQUENCES INTEGRATION - AN INFORMATION INTEGRATION APPROACH

This study concerns the rules of punishment used by adolescents placed in a situation in which they are provided with three types of information: information concerning the bodily consequences of an act committed, information concerning the material consequences of this same act, and information concerning intention to commit the act (to harm). At the group level the integration rule used for the first two types of information appeared to be a strict summation rule, clearly distinct of an averaging one, and without apparent effects of subadditivity. Results concerning the integration of consequences information and intention information were in agreement with previous findings in the Information Integration Theory literature.