Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment

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Edited by Douglas L. Medin, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and approved February 23, 2016 (received for review November 8, 2015)

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^aDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553;
^bCenter for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553;
^cSocial Sciences Subdivision, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599;
^dDepartment of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5003;
^ePhilosophy Department, John Carroll University, University Heights, OH 44118;
^fDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210;
^gDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;
^hDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada;
ⁱDepartment of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada;
^jInstitute of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, 820 05 Bratislava 25, Slovakia;
^kSchool of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia;
^lDepartment of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1107;
^mCenter for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1107;
ⁿJepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173;
^oDepartment of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7QB, United Kingdom;
^pHang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7QB, United Kingdom

Edited by Douglas L. Medin, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and approved February 23, 2016 (received for review November 8, 2015)

↵¹To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: hclarkbarrett{at}gmail.com.

Author contributions: H.C.B., A.B., A.N.C., D.M.T.F., S.F., M.G., J.H., M.K., G.K., A.P., B.A.S., S.S., C.v.R., W.Z., and S.L. designed research; H.C.B., A.B., A.N.C., D.M.T.F., M.G., J.H., M.K., G.K., A.P., B.A.S., C.v.R., and W.Z. performed research; H.C.B. analyzed data; and H.C.B., J.H., and S.L. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: Data are permanently deposited on the data page of the AHRC Culture and the Mind Project, www.philosophy.dept.shef.ac.uk/culture&mind/Data/IntentionsMorality/IntentionsMorality.csv.
See Commentary on page 4555.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1522070113/-/DCSupplemental.