Will Your Jurors Decide the Case on Conduct or the Consequences of that Conduct?
Apparently it depends on where they fall along the powerful/powerless spectrum.
"In determining whether an act is right or wrong, the powerful focus on whether rules and principles are violated, whereas the powerless focus on the consequences." - from "How Power Influences Moral Thinking" published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Hat Tip: Barking Up the Wrong Tree.
