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Inference of trustworthiness from intuitive moral judgments.
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Moral judgments play a critical role in motivating and enforcing human cooperation, and research on the proximate mechanisms of moral judgments highlights the importance of intuitive, automatic processes in forming such judgments. Intuitive moral judgments often share characteristics with deontological theories in normative ethics, which argue that certain acts (such as killing) are absolutely wrong, regardless of their consequences. Why do moral intuitions typically follow deontological prescriptions, as opposed to those of other ethical theories? Here, we test a functional explanation for this phenomenon by investigating whether agents who express deontological moral judgments are more valued as social partners. Across 5 studies, we show that people who make characteristically deontological judgments are preferred as social partners, perceived as more moral and trustworthy, and are trusted more in economic games. These findings provide empirical support for a partner choice account of moral intuitions whereby typically deontological judgments confer an adaptive function by increasing a person's likelihood of being chosen as a cooperation partner. Therefore, deontological moral intuitions may represent an evolutionarily prescribed prior that was selected for through partner choice mechanisms. (PsycINFO Database Record
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Metadata
- Authors
- Everett, J. A. C., Pizarro, D. A., & Crockett, M. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Cornell University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Everett, Jim A. C.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Published
- 2016
- Volume
- 145
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 772-787
- ISSN
- 0096-3445 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2222
- OpenAlex
- W3121353240
- Cited by
- 317
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 8
- FWCI
- 17.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology General (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (acceptedVersion)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Oxford University Press
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Ethics in Business and Education
- Keywords
- moral intuitions, trustworthiness, cooperation, moral perception, normative ethics
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Judgment, Male, Morals, Social Desirability, Intuition, Ethical Theory, Trust
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