The emotional shape of our moral life: Anger-related emotions and mutualistic anthropology

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (1):86 - 87 (2013)
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Abstract

The evolutionary hypothesis advanced by Baumard et al. makes precise predictions on which emotions should play the main role in our moral lives: morality should be more closely linked to emotions (like contempt and disgust) than to emotions (like anger). Here, we argue that these predictions run contrary to most psychological evidence

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Julien Deonna
University of Geneva
Florian Cova
University of Geneva