How social relationships shape moral wrongness judgments

Moral judgments depend on relational context, with different normative cooperative expectations – relational norms – embedded in different social relationships, such as parent-child, romantic partners, siblings, or acquaintances. Here, the authors show how relational norms for care, hierarchy, recip...

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Main Authors: Brian D. Earp, Killian L. McLoughlin, Joshua T. Monrad, Margaret S. Clark, Molly J. Crockett
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b79f504d6cf24e2f8eb8852cedf052d7
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Summary:Moral judgments depend on relational context, with different normative cooperative expectations – relational norms – embedded in different social relationships, such as parent-child, romantic partners, siblings, or acquaintances. Here, the authors show how relational norms for care, hierarchy, reciprocity, and mating are embedded in a set of everyday social relationships in the United States, and use this information to predict out-of-sample moral judgments in relational context.