Inference of Trustworthiness from Intuitive Moral Judgments

Everett, Jim A. C.; Pizarro, David A.; Crockett, Molly J.

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“…This hypothesis builds on evidence that people who calculate when presented with the opportunity to behave morally are perceived as less prosocial (27,36), even when they do ultimately wind up making the "right" decision (37,38). Calculating behavior is seen as a sign of doubt or uncertainty (37,39,40), whereas prosocial decisions that are quick, impulsive, or emotional are seen as reflecting genuine moral goodness (38,41).…”

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“…Intimate relationships often foster strong prosocial emotions, such as devotion and love, that encourage extreme cooperative behavior that is insensitive to costs or contexts (25). People impulsively decide to help strangers in emergencies (26), and there are rich traditions of adhering to ethical principles (27) or religious teachings (28)(29)(30)(31) that prescribe rigid guidelines for when cooperation is obligatory, regardless of the costs and benefits to the actor. These diverse examples likely evoke a broad range of proximate psychologies, ranging from intuitive and emotional processes to explicit conscious decisions not to calculate (that may themselves be the result of calculation).…”

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Uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness

Jordan

Hoffman

Nowak

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Humans frequently cooperate without carefully weighing the costs and benefits. As a result, people may wind up cooperating when it is not worthwhile to do so. Why risk making costly mistakes? Here, we present experimental evidence that reputation concerns provide an answer: people cooperate in an uncalculating way to signal their trustworthiness to observers. We present two economic game experiments in which uncalculating versus calculating decisionmaking is operationalized by either a subject's choice of whether to reveal the precise costs of cooperating (Exp. 1) or the time a subject spends considering these costs (Exp. 2). In both experiments, we find that participants are more likely to engage in uncalculating cooperation when their decision-making process is observable to others. Furthermore, we confirm that people who engage in uncalculating cooperation are perceived as, and actually are, more trustworthy than people who cooperate in a calculating way. Taken together, these data provide the first empirical evidence, to our knowledge, that uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness, and is not merely an efficient decision-making strategy that reduces cognitive costs. Our results thus help to explain a range of puzzling behaviors, such as extreme altruism, the use of ethical principles, and romantic love.reputation | social evaluation | decision-making | experimental economics | moral psychology

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Uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness

Jordan

Hoffman

Nowak

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Un sujeto expresó que eligió pasar un día en vez de acostarse y tener una relación sexual porque pensaba o imaginada que era lo aceptable en la sociedad. Everett (2016) hace una investigación que concluye que las personas que hacen juicios deontológicos son preferidas como agentes sociales, porque son percibidos como más morales y de confianza.…”

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¿La psicoterapia transforma la praxis moral?

Garcia¹

2017

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. Artículo de acceso abierto bajo la Licencia de Creative Commons. Permite el uso, distribución y reproducción sin restricciones, siempre y cuando la obra original esté debidamente citada. Resumen IntroducciónEn las terapias psicoanalíticas se constata que el analizando transforma su estructura cognitiva junto a la extinción de los síntomas clínicos. Todos los síntomas, pero alguno más claramente (cleptomanía), conllevan conductas amorales. La extinción de la patología dota al sujeto, al liberarlo del determinismo, de un potencial de funcionamiento moral distinto. No es habitual, en la clínica, evaluar la cognición moral en las altas terapéuticas. Pero en mi experiencia hay datos que ponen en duda que las decisiones morales sean distintas. Clarificar esto requiere investigación en un marco distinto del clínico.

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“…"), one may take a wider context into account and consider also what consequences the action will bring about for oneself. It was, for example, showed that utilitarians are perceived as cold, calculating, and untrustworthy (Everett, Pizarro, & Crockett, 2016;Uhlmann, Zhu, & Tannenbaum, 2013). Because people may want to avoid being perceived as possessing such negative characteristics, they refrain from expressing support for the utilitarian action (Rom & Conway, 2018).…”

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Sacrificing oneself or another

Vranka¹,

Bahník²,

Efendic³

2017

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In situations where one has the opportunity to either sacrifice oneself or another person to save a group of people, one might think that there are instances where people would rather sacrifice themselves than others -thus showing an other-serving bias. So far however, most studies found instances of a self-serving bias -people would rather sacrifice others. In this paper, we test whether an other-serving bias might appear as a function of judgment type. That is, we looked at prescriptive (should/should not) and normative (wrong/right) types of judgments separately. We found that participants exhibited an other-serving bias, but only when asked whether self-or other-sacrifice is wrong. Otherwise, participants were exhibiting a self-serving bias; that is, they approved sacrificing others more. The results underscore the importance of question wording and suggest that some effects on moral judgment might depend on the type of judgment.

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Inference of Trustworthiness from Intuitive Moral Judgments

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Cited by 107 publications

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Uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness

Uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness

¿La psicoterapia transforma la praxis moral?

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