 First, it might be that the effect is not truly driven by moral judgment. Existing studies show that people make different judgments depending on whether the agent is doing something helpful or harmful, but of course, there are many differences between helpful and harmful actions other than their moral status. For example, a number of researchers have argued that the effect is in fact driven by people’s beliefs about the mental states of the agents in the vignettes (Sloman, Fernbach &amp; Ewing 2012; Sripada &amp; Konrath 2011). Agents will tend to have different sorts of mental states when they are doing something helpful than when they are doing something harmful, and it might be that this difference in mental states is driving all of the observed effects.