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Le Pargneux, Arthur, Chater, Nick and Zeitoun, Hossam (2022) Contractualist concerns shape moral decisions and moral judgments. In: CogSci 2022, Toronto, Canada, 27-30 Jul 2022. Published in: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society., 44
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Abstract
Understanding human morality is of major interest across the cognitive and behavioral sciences. Empirical approaches often focus on two theories from moral philosophy — consequentialism and deontology —, explaining moral cognition by appealing to either calculation of consequences, adherence to rules, or both. By contrast, a third influential philosophical tradition — contractualism — has received little empirical investigation. According to contractualism, ethics is a matter of forming, adhering to, and enforcing (hypothetical) agreements. Drawing upon virtual bargaining — a recent psychological proposal that models social interactions in contractualist terms — we investigate moral contractualism in five preregistered online experiments (n = 3,636). We find that characteristically contractualist concerns (e.g., agreement, consent, mutual interests) heavily shape incentivized decisions in a new experimental game designed to split apart contractualism from consequentialism and deontology. Moreover, they influence moral judgments in three distinct settings. Contractualist reasoning may play a central role in human morality.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cognitive Science Society | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 44 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||||
| Title of Event: | CogSci 2022 | ||||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||||
| Location of Event: | Toronto, Canada | ||||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 27-30 Jul 2022 | ||||||
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