{"id":2314,"date":"2009-08-19T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2009-08-18T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T06:10:06","slug":"the-deceptiveness-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/08\/19\/the-deceptiveness-of-sin","title":{"rendered":"The Deceptiveness of Sin \u2014 Deeper Than You Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Justice<\/a>Simon M. Lahama, Adam L. Alterb, and Geof\u00adfrey P. Good\u00adwinc report a sur\u00adpris\u00ading result in \u201cEasy on the mind, easy on the wrong\u00addo\u00ader: Dis\u00adcrepant\u00adly flu\u00adent vio\u00adla\u00adtions are deemed less moral\u00adly wrong<\/a>\u201d Cog\u00adni\u00adtion<\/i>, Vol\u00adume 112, Issue 3, Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 2009, pages 462\u2013466.<\/p>\n

From the paper:<\/p>\n

Par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants com\u00adplet\u00aded a ques\u00adtion\u00adnaire in which they read six vignettes describ\u00ading var\u00adi\u00adous moral vio\u00adla\u00adtions: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPunch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (one man punch\u00ades anoth\u00ader in a bar), \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFlag\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (teacher burns Aus\u00adtralian flag in class), \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (fam\u00adi\u00adly eats its dead dog), \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDeface\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (man defaces a memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal), \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHitler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (man taunts Jew\u00adish sports fans with Hitler imi\u00adta\u00adtion), \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKiss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (broth\u00ader and sis\u00adter kiss pas\u00adsion\u00adate\u00adly). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Each of the par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants read three of the sto\u00adries in an easy-to-read for\u00admat and the oth\u00ader three in a hard\u00ader-to-read for\u00admat. <\/p>\n

In the words of the authors:<\/p>\n

\u2026dis\u00adcrepant per\u00adcep\u00adtu\u00adal flu\u00aden\u00adcy decreased per\u00adcep\u00adtions of wrong\u00adness com\u00adpared to dis\u00adcrepant dis\u00adflu\u00aden\u00adcy. Fur\u00adther, and con\u00adsis\u00adtent with effects of dis\u00adcrepant flu\u00aden\u00adcy on truth judg\u00adments (Hansen et al., 2008), it seems that this dif\u00adfer\u00adence is account\u00aded for by flu\u00adent pro\u00adcess\u00ading decreas\u00ading, rather than dis\u00adflu\u00adent pro\u00adcess\u00ading increas\u00ading, per\u00adcep\u00adtions of wrong\u00adness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In nor\u00admal Eng\u00adlish: peo\u00adple thought that immoral choic\u00ades were less seri\u00adous when they were easy to read about. In the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal terms, they excused sin because of how good it looked (or more pre\u00adcise\u00adly based upon how easy it was to under\u00adstand). Appar\u00adent\u00adly clean\u00adli\u00adness is<\/i> next to god\u00adli\u00adness (or at least leg\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty is next to liv\u00ading right).<\/p>\n

So the next time you have some\u00adthing to con\u00adfess, be sure to print it on nice paper and use a laser print\u00ader. It just might give you the edge you need.<\/p>\n

The heart is deceit\u00adful above all things and beyond cure. Who can under\u00adstand it? (Jer 17:9)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simon M. Lahama, Adam L. Alterb, and Geof\u00adfrey P. Good\u00adwinc report a sur\u00adpris\u00ading result in \u201cEasy on the mind, easy on the wrong\u00addo\u00ader: Dis\u00adcrepant\u00adly flu\u00adent vio\u00adla\u00adtions are deemed less moral\u00adly wrong\u201d Cog\u00adni\u00adtion, Vol\u00adume 112, Issue 3, Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 2009, pages 462\u2013466. From the paper: Par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants com\u00adplet\u00aded a ques\u00adtion\u00adnaire in which they read six vignettes describ\u00ading var\u00adi\u00adous \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThe Decep\u00adtive\u00adness of Sin \u2014 Deep\u00ader Than You Thought\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}