Ego function of morality and developing tensions that are "within".

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

Published: February 2013

We applaud Baumard et al.’s mutualistic account of morality but detect circularity in their articulation of how morality emerged. Contra the authors, we propose that mutualism might account for a sensitivity to convention (the ways things are done within a group) rather than for a sense of fairness. An ontogenetic perspective better captures the complexity of what it means to be moral.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X12000854DOI Listing

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