What do People Mean when Speaking of Evilness?

  1. Quiles del Castillo, María de las Nieves 1
  2. Morera Bello, María Dolores 1
  3. Correa Piñero, Ana Delia 1
  4. Leyens, Jacques Philippe 2
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

  2. 2 Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve
Revista:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1138-7416

Año de publicación: 2010

Volumen: 13

Número: 2

Páginas: 788-797

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1017/S1138741600002444 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: The Spanish Journal of Psychology

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Resumen

El término maldad comienza a difundirse en psicología social tras la publicación en 1999 del monográfico editado por Arthur G. Miller, “Perspectives on evil and violence”. Usualmente se emplea para definir acciones extremas e intensamente dañinas, pero el concepto es impreciso y necesita ser delimitado empíricamente. Este artículo trata de responder a las preguntas ¿Qué es la maldad? ¿Qué diferencias existen entre la maldad y el concepto tradicional de agresión? Para ello, llevamos a cabo varios estudios con tres objetivos: analizar cómo legos y expertos definen la maldad, verificar si las personas legas diferencian niveles de intensidad de la maldad y determinar las dimensiones predictivas de la maldad y la agresión. Los resultados ofrecen respuestas preliminares a las tres cuestiones.

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This research was funded by FEDER and by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Research Project SEJ2005-05135/PSIC). It forms part of the National Plan of Research and Development Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Mª Nieves Quiles del Castillo. Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, Social y Organizacional. Facultad de Psicología. Universidad de La Laguna. Campus de Guajara S/N. 38205 La Laguna. Tenerife. (Spain). E-mail: mquiles@ull.es.

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