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View article: Mapping Moral Judgments of Food Waste: Moving Beyond Truisms
Mapping Moral Judgments of Food Waste: Moving Beyond Truisms Open
Why do people see wasting food as immoral? While previous studies on food-wastingbehaviour have explored its moral significance, they often lacked a clear scientificoperationalisation of morality. This project bridges the gap between resea…
View article: Kindness and happiness at work
Kindness and happiness at work Open
What is the relationship between kindness and happiness at work? Previous research has shown that kindness is a cause and a correlate of happiness in general, and that kinder companies have happier employees. Here we build on this research…
View article: Modular morals: Mapping the organization of the moral brain
Modular morals: Mapping the organization of the moral brain Open
Is morality the product of multiple domain-specific psychological mechanisms, or one domain-general mechanism? Previous research suggests that morality consists of a range of solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human soci…
View article: The Morality of Food Wasting Behaviour. A Theory-Driven Approach
The Morality of Food Wasting Behaviour. A Theory-Driven Approach Open
People believe that food wasting behaviour is immoral, but the underlying reasons for this belief remain unclear. Previous research on this issue has lacked a coherent theoretical foundation — the studies often used folk conceptions of mor…
View article: Moral universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies
Moral universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies Open
What is the cross-cultural prevalence of the seven moral values posited by the theory of "morality-as-cooperation"? Previous research, using laborious hand-coding of ethnographic accounts of ethics from 60 societies, found examples of most…
View article: Morality as cooperation, politics as conflict
Morality as cooperation, politics as conflict Open
What is the relation between morality and politics? If morality is a collection of cooperative rules, and politics is conflict over which cooperative projects to pursue, then they should be correlated. We examined the relation between mora…
View article: Modular Morals: The Genetic Architecture of Morality as Cooperation
Modular Morals: The Genetic Architecture of Morality as Cooperation Open
Is morality the product of multiple domain-specific psychological mechanisms or one domain-general mechanism? Recent research suggests that morality consists of a range of solutions to the problems of cooperation that are recurrent in huma…
View article: Moral Universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies
Moral Universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies Open
What is the cross-cultural prevalence of the seven moral values posited by the theory of “Morality-as-Cooperation”? Previous research, using hand-coding of ethnographic accounts of ethics from 60 societies, found examples of most of the se…
View article: The Costs and Benefits of Kindness
The Costs and Benefits of Kindness Open
What is kindness, and what makes an act kind? Previous research has suggested that the kindness of an act depends on the benefit provided to the recipient, the cost to the actor, and the ratio of cost to benefit. Here we conduct two studie…
View article: Morality as Cooperation, Politics as Conflict
Morality as Cooperation, Politics as Conflict Open
What is the relationship between morality and politics? If morality is a collection of cooperative rules, and politics is conflict over which cooperative projects to pursue, then we should expect the two to be related. People who expect to…
View article: Moral Messaging in a Time of COVID-19
Moral Messaging in a Time of COVID-19 Open
Do appeals to moral values increase compliance with COVID-19 public health measures? According to the theory of ‘Morality as cooperation’, morality consists of a collection of cooperative principles that help us get along, work together an…
View article: Moral Molecules: Morality as a Combinatorial System
Moral Molecules: Morality as a Combinatorial System Open
What is morality? How many moral values are there? And what are they? According to the theory of morality-as-cooperation, morality is a collection of biological and cultural solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human socia…
View article: What is the relationship between morals and politics?
What is the relationship between morals and politics? Open
What’s the relationship between morals and politics? According to Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), people rely on multiple evolved intuitive “foundations” when making moral decisions, including: Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Purit…
View article: Gross values: Investigating the role of disgust in bioethics
Gross values: Investigating the role of disgust in bioethics Open
What is the role of disgust in moral judgements? Previous research found that disgust increases the severity of judgments; but other more recent work has cast doubt on these findings. Here we investigate roles of induced and trait disgust …
View article: Gross Values: Investigating the role of disgust in bioethics
Gross Values: Investigating the role of disgust in bioethics Open
What is the role of disgust in moral judgements? Previous research found that disgust increases the severity of judgments; but other more recent work has cast doubt on these findings. Here we investigate roles of induced and trait disgust …
View article: Moral Molecules: Morality as a combinatorial system
Moral Molecules: Morality as a combinatorial system Open
What is morality? How many moral values are there? And what are they? According to the theory of morality-as-cooperation, morality is a collection of biological and cultural solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human socia…
View article: Morality is fundamentally an evolved solution to problems of social co‐operation
Morality is fundamentally an evolved solution to problems of social co‐operation Open
This debate took place at the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) conference in Oxford on 21 September 2018, following the model of the Group Debates in Anthropological Theory at the University of Manchester (GDAT). It brought toge…
View article: Modular Morals: Mapping the organisation of the moral brain
Modular Morals: Mapping the organisation of the moral brain Open
Is morality the product of multiple domain-specific psychological mechanisms, or one domain-general mechanism? Previous research suggests that morality consists of a range of solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human soci…
View article: Cooperative conservation: Seven ways to save the world
Cooperative conservation: Seven ways to save the world Open
The world faces serious environmental problems. To solve them we must work together. Fortunately, humans are a very cooperative species. We have faced a range of cooperative problems in the past, and have evolved and invented a range of co…
View article: Fakesbook
Fakesbook Open
As frequent users of social networking applications, middle and high school students are well-suited for curricular interventions that leverage these technologies. Allowing students to see "behind the curtain" of these applications provide…
View article: Mapping Morality with a Compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality as cooperation’ with a new questionnaire
Mapping Morality with a Compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality as cooperation’ with a new questionnaire Open
Morality-as-Cooperation (MAC) is the theory that morality is a collection of biological and cultural solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human social life. MAC uses game theory to identify distinct types of cooperation, a…
View article: How Moments Become Movements: Shared Outrage, Group Cohesion, and the Lion That Went Viral
How Moments Become Movements: Shared Outrage, Group Cohesion, and the Lion That Went Viral Open
Can moments of viral media activity transform into enduring activist movements? The killing of Cecil the lion by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe in 2015 attracted global attention and generated enduring conservation activism in the form of mon…
View article: Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor
Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor Open
Do acts of kindness improve the well-being of the actor? Recent advances in the behavioural sciences have provided a number of explanations of human social, cooperative and altruistic behaviour. These theories predict that people will be ‘…
View article: Do moral values reflect the value of cooperation? Investigating the social correlates of morality
Do moral values reflect the value of cooperation? Investigating the social correlates of morality Open
According to the theory of Morality as Cooperation (MAC), individual differences in moral values reflect the value of the different types of cooperation in an individual's social environment. Here we test this prediction by examining the r…
View article: Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride Open
Significance Cross-cultural tests from 16 nations were performed to evaluate the hypothesis that the emotion of pride evolved to guide behavior to elicit valuation and respect from others. Ancestrally, enhanced evaluations would have led t…