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.

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]