Background: The capacity of people with Down syndrome (DS) to combine intent and severity of consequences information when judging the level of blame that should be attributed to an offender was compared with that of controls. Method: The technique used did not require verbalisation. Twenty-five people with DS and 25 typically developing persons…

Recent research in moral psychology has attempted to characterize patterns of moral judgments of actions in terms of the causal and intentional properties of those actions. The present study directly compares the roles of consequence, causation, belief and desire in determining moral judgments. Judgments of the wrongness or permissibility of…