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Beyond economic games: A mutualistic approach to the rest of moral life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2013

Jesse Graham
Jesse Graham*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089. [email protected]/grahamlab
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Abstract

Mutualism provides a compelling account of the fairness intuitions on display in economic games. However, it is not yet clear how well the approach holds up as an explanation of all human morality. The theory needs to be tested outside the methodological neighborhood it was born in; such testing has the potential to greatly improve our understanding of morality in general.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 91 - 92
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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