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SUBMITTER: Simpson B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5314330 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simpson Brent B Willer Robb R Harrell Ashley A
Scientific reports 20170217
The threat of free-riding makes the marshalling of cooperation from group members a fundamental challenge of social life. Where classical social science theory saw the enforcement of moral boundaries as a critical way by which group members regulate one another's self-interest and build cooperation, moral judgments have most often been studied as processes internal to individuals. Here we investigate how the interpersonal expression of positive and negative moral judgments encourages cooperation ...[more]