Dissociation of intention and outcome
In our study, no main effect of outcome valence was observed. The judgment difference we have observed in a baseline condition are mainly driven by the intention-oriented attribution, suggesting that goodness ratings were mainly driven by intention. It is possible that participants may show strong demanding prosocial characters, thus leading to higher weighting of intention than outcome. The outcomes (good/bad) here indeed didn’t impact their self-interest as a third-party. Meanwhile, the outcome itself didn’t convey moral values or utilities