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Virtuous violence from the war room to death row
Contributed by Paul Slovic, May 28, 2020 (sent for review February 18, 2020; reviewed by Rose McDermott and Scott D. Sagan)

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- Published in issue August 25, 2020.
- Published first August 10, 2020.
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- aDecision Research, Eugene, OR 97401;
- bDepartment of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403;
- cSchool of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403;
- dDivision of Psychology, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
Contributed by Paul Slovic, May 28, 2020 (sent for review February 18, 2020; reviewed by Rose McDermott and Scott D. Sagan)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: pslovic{at}uoregon.edu.
Author contributions: P.S. and D.V. designed research; P.S. performed research; P.S., C.K.M., D.M.M., A.Q., and D.V. analyzed data; and P.S., D.M.M., A.Q., and D.V. wrote the paper.
Reviewers: R.M., Brown University; and S.D.S., Stanford University.
The authors declare no competing interest.
This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.2001583117/-/DCSupplemental.
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