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The sense of moral obligation facilitates information agency and culture.

Author(s): Maranges HM, Baumeister RF, Vohs KD

Behav Brain Sci. 2020 04 30;43:e78 Authors: Maranges HM, Baumeister RF, Vohs KD

Article GUID: 32349801


Title:The sense of moral obligation facilitates information agency and culture.
Authors:Maranges HMBaumeister RFVohs KD
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32349801?dopt=Abstract
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X19002334
Category:Behav Brain Sci
PMID:32349801
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL32306; School of Psychology. maranges@psy.fsu.eduwww.heathermaranges.com.
2 Concordia University, Montreal, QCH4B 1R6, Canada.
3 University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 407, Australia. r.baumeister@psy.uq.edu.auhttp://www.roybaumeister.com.
4 Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455. vohsx005@umn.eduhttps://carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty/kathleen-vohs.

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The sense of moral obligation facilitates information agency and culture.

Behav Brain Sci. 2020 04 30;43:e78

Authors: Maranges HM, Baumeister RF, Vohs KD

Abstract

Tomasello argues that humans' sense of moral obligation emerges early in development, relies on a shared "we," and serves as the foundation of cooperation. This perspective complements our theoretical view of the human self as information agent. The shared "we" promotes not only proximal cooperative goals but also distal ones via the construction of shared understanding - it promotes culture.

PMID: 32349801 [PubMed - in process]