Moralized Rationality: Relying on Logic and Evidence in the Formation and Evaluation of Belief Can Be Seen as a Moral Issue

Tomas Ståhl; Maarten P. Zaal; Linda J. Skitka

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166332

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Moralized Rationality: Relying on Logic and Evidence in the Formation and Evaluation of Belief Can Be Seen as a Moral Issue

Tomas Ståhl ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomas Ståhl, Maarten P. Zaal

* E-mail: tstahl@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Maarten P. Zaal ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomas Ståhl, Maarten P. Zaal

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Linda J. Skitka

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Moralized Rationality: Relying on Logic and Evidence in the Formation and Evaluation of Belief Can Be Seen as a Moral Issue

Tomas Ståhl,
Maarten P. Zaal,
Linda J. Skitka

Published: November 16, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166332

About the Authors

Tomas Ståhl

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomas Ståhl, Maarten P. Zaal

* E-mail: tstahl@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Maarten P. Zaal

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomas Ståhl, Maarten P. Zaal

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Linda J. Skitka

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TS MPZ LJS. Formal analysis: TS MPZ. Funding acquisition: MPZ. Investigation: TS MPZ. Methodology: TS MPZ LJS. Writing – original draft: TS MPZ LJS. Writing – review & editing: TS MPZ LJS.

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