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@ARTICLE{Jefferson:1033628,
      author       = {Jefferson, Anneli and Heinrichs, Jan-Hendrik and Sifferd,
                      Katrina},
      title        = {{S}caffolding {B}ad {M}oral {A}gents},
      journal      = {Topoi},
      volume       = {44},
      issn         = {0167-7411},
      address      = {Dordrecht [u.a.]},
      publisher    = {Springer Science + Business Media B.V},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2024-06501},
      pages        = {445-455},
      year         = {2025},
      abstract     = {Recent work on ecological accounts of moral responsibility
                      and agency have argued for the importance of social
                      environments for moral reasons responsiveness. Moral
                      audiences can scaffold individual agents’ sensitivity to
                      moral reasons and their motivation to act on them, but they
                      can also undermine it. In this paper, we look at two case
                      studies of ‘scaffolding bad’, where moral agency is
                      undermined by social environments: street gangs and online
                      incel communities. In discussing these case studies, we draw
                      both on recent situated cognition literature and on
                      scaffolded responsibility theory. We show that the way
                      individuals are embedded into a specific social environment
                      changes the moral considerations they are sensitive to in
                      systematic ways because of the way these environments
                      scaffold affective and cognitive processes, specifically
                      those that concern the perception and treatment of ingroups
                      and outgroups. We argue that gangs undermine reasons
                      responsiveness to a greater extent than incel communities
                      because gang members are more thoroughly immersed in the
                      gang environment.},
      cin          = {INM-7},
      ddc          = {100},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
      pnm          = {5255 - Neuroethics and Ethics of Information (POF4-525)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5255},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      UT           = {WOS:001342057200001},
      doi          = {10.1007/s11245-024-10110-2},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1033628},
}