<p>November 20th, 2020</p>
<p>Dear Dr. Fernando Andres Polanco</p>
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<p>We wish to submit an original article entitled Admiration in adolescents’ judgments on situations involving hurting for consideration by The Interamerican Journal of Psychology</p>
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<p>We confirm that this work is original and has not been published elsewhere, no is it currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.</p>
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<p>In this paper, we show that the admiration variable did not interfere with the responses of adolescents. This result is intriguing because other studies on this development stage reveal that adolescents tend to look for models who differ from their parents, with idols being admired in this age group. However, the evaluation object of this article – hurting the other – has a peculiar characteristic. Causing harm to the other is about a prototypical situation of moral dominance and, considered from the Social Domain perspective, the situation of eminent moral salience. However, the sample presented mostly conventional concerns for these harm situations, rather than concerns for others. Thus, the adolescents judged the situations of hurting the other as wrong and, both from the point of view of generic actors being the protagonists as in the case of idols. The act of hurting the other seemed to have prevalence in the judgment, being considered really wrong, regardless of the author’s definition. In fact, the only difference found by the study in the comparison of judgments between generic authors and idols showed that adolescents demanded a form of greater “commitment” to the moral domain by idols, hoping that they would be more correct in the judgment about hurting.</p>
<p>Given the increase in moral development and admiration studies globally, we believe that the findings presented in our paper will appeal to the specific scientists who follow to The Interamerican Journal of Psychology. Our findings allow your readers to understand the process of moral development and admiration in a Brazilian context. For example, it is possible to note that the sample legitimizes parental authority, even though it is composed of adolescents. These data somehow end up influencing the main findings of this research, which differs from most of the academic literature in North America.</p>
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<p>We have no conflicts of interest to disclose.</p>
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<p>Please address all correspondence concerning this manuscript to me at paulo.choi@usp.br</p>
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<p>Thank you for your consideration of this manuscript.</p>
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<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Paulo Yoo Chul Choi</p>
<p>Betânia Alves Veiga Dell’Agli</p>
<p>Priscila Bonato Galhardo</p>
<p>Luciana Maria Caetano</p>