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Acceptance Of Moral And Legal Deviance, Talor Tartaglia, Natalie Bingaman, Taylor Graves

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Deviance is the straying from cultural norms—these norms can be either moral or legal. Everybody reacts to deviance, mostly in negative, unaccepting ways. However, over time people have become more accepting of these deviant acts. (Wesselmann, Williams, Pryor, Eichler, Gill, & Hogue, 2014). There is a significant relationship between remembering an event that makes someone feel guilty and actually feeling guilt again. (Chiou, Yang, Yang, 2010). This shows that priming people to feel guilt is affective. People who are made to feel guilty tend to participate in riskier behaviors. (Kouchaki, Gino, Oveis, 2014). From this, it can be inferred that …