Effects of Priming Dialectic Rational Beliefs on Irrational Beliefs

that God would have a good reason for permitting the harm since God is generally equated with goodness by those identifying as religious.However, in the help condition, a person may hypothesize that God would be given more praise than people are given for the positive side effect because participants may not feel comfortable withholding praise from God.Another avenue worth investigating may be to intensify the harm and help conditions, making them more graphic or more personal, to see if this affects the judgment of the intuited blame/ praise and amount of responsibility assigned to the agent.As researchers continue to explore nuances of moral judgment (e.g., flash intuitive judgments, which seem to run afoul of deliberate reasoning), the picture of what it means to be a moral being will hopefully come into clearer view.