The Shape of blame: investigating the gradual nature of judgments of blame and praise through the mathematical estimation of ‘blame-praise curves’. Ghent University
For “gradual behaviours”, whether a specific instance of that behaviour is blame- or praiseworthy depends on how much of the behaviour is done. For instance, for a behaviour like “replying quickly to emails”, whether a specific reply is blame or praiseworthy will depend on the timeliness of that reply. Such behaviours lie on a continuum in which part of the continuum is praiseworthy (replying quickly) and another part of the continuum is ...