Gunning for affective realism
Emotion, perception and police shooting errors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21592075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raamy Majeed (0000-0001-8864-1643, Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 532-554 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09515089.2023.2188890 |
| OpenAlex | W4323864203 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
Affective realism, roughly the hypothesis that you “perceive what you feel”, has recently been put forward as a novel, empirically-backed explanation of police shooting errors. The affective states involved in policing in high-pressure situations result in police officers literally seeing guns even when none are present. The aim of this paper is to (i) unpack the implications of this explanation for assessing police culpability and (ii) determine whether we should take these implications at face value. I argue that while affective realism stands to diminish, if not eliminate, the moral and legal responsibilities of officers who have made shooting errors, the empirical data itself does not directly support such a radical rethink of police culpability
Criminology · Culpability · Epistemology · Perception · Realism · Sociology · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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