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Contractualist concerns shape moral decisions and moral judgments

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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)
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
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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2022Published
12 April 2022Accepted
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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