Here we investigate moralistic punishment, a behavior designed to inflict costs on another individual in response to a perceived moral violation.
Though some support exists for specific abstinence-only programs, particularly those that do not apply a moralistic lens to sexual behavior, a larger body of research indicates that the approach is ineffective in preventing teenage pregnancies.
"The biggest problem we really face is that we're hedonistic in our behavior and moralistic in our attitudes," Weinstein goes on, as we discuss the array of saucy imagery, sexy torsos, and foodstuffs used over the years in AHF's campaigns.
The French are traditionally less moralistic than Americans in judging the private behavior of their politicians.
In essays like "The Hypocrisy of Puritanism" and a speech entitled "The Failure of Christianity", Goldman made more than a few enemies among religious communities by attacking their moralistic attitudes and efforts to control human behavior.
The animal kingdom at its higher levels is suffused with not only reproductive survival drives but also with pleasure-seeking drives, an area covered by the science of hedonics, a discipline with a name itself suffering the moralistic denunciations engaged to suppress much about sexual behavior.
Comedy audiences can be surprisingly moralistic, demanding justice when they disapprove of a character's behavior.
Philandering Finns are exceptionally comfortable with their behavior, perhaps because the Finnish press isn't moralistic about it and perhaps because they travel a lot.
They often cite Kennedy's rulings in Romer (to argue that exclusive marriage laws are another example of mere bigotry) and in Lawrence (where Kennedy contends that a long history of moralistic disapproval is not, by itself, sufficient basis for outlawing behavior).
Publicists and studios exerted rigid control over stars' lives, and tried to control reporting about them, because general social standards of behavior were, at least in the public realm, stringently moralistic and harshly judgmental.
