{"id":964,"date":"2007-05-12T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/a-sense-for-justice\/"},"modified":"2007-05-12T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T06:31:14","slug":"a-sense-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/05\/a-sense-for-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"A sense for justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hans-Werner Bierhoff (in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/2007\/19\/Interview-Bierhoff\">ZEIT interview<\/a>) believes that our ability to recognise a punishment as fair\/just or not fair\/just depends on social norms. The ultimate driving force to sense justice, however, seems to be an inborn trait. I even believe in a QTL &#8211; a quantitative trait that can clearly defined and even mapped some time to distinct genetic variants.<br \/>\nMonkeys reject unequal pay (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v425\/n6955\/abs\/nature01963.html\">scienceblog:doi:10.1038\/nature01963:<\/a>) in the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/userwww.service.emory.edu\/~sbrosna\/\">Brosnan<\/a> study &#8211; why should humans do?<br \/>\nMore details may be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/tit-for-tat-or-altruism-in-science\/\">tit-for-tat<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans-Werner Bierhoff (in a recent ZEIT interview) believes that our ability to recognise a punishment as fair\/just or not fair\/just depends on social norms. The ultimate driving force to sense justice, however, seems to be an inborn trait. I even believe in a QTL &#8211; a quantitative trait that can clearly defined and even mapped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/05\/a-sense-for-justice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A sense for justice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}