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Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2023

Samuel Murray Open the ORCID record for Samuel Murray [Opens in a new window] ,
Santiago Amaya  and
William Jiménez-Leal
Samuel Murray
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Juicios y Emociones Morales, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Philosophy Department, Providence College, Providence, RI, USA. smurray7@providence.edu; samuelmurray.org Neuroscience Program, Providence College, Providence, RI, USA
Santiago Amaya
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Juicios y Emociones Morales, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. samaya@uniandes.edu.co; https://cienciassociales.uniandes.edu.co/filosofia/profesores/santiago-amaya/
William Jiménez-Leal
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Juicios y Emociones Morales, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Department of Psychology, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. w.jimenezleal@uniandes.edu.co; https://cienciassociales.uniandes.edu.co/psicologia/profesores/william-jimenez-leal/
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Abstract

Fitouchi et al. claim that seemingly victimless pleasures and nonproductive activities are moralized because they alter self-control. Their account predicts that: (1) victimless excesses are negatively moralized because they diminish self-control, and (2) restrained behaviors are positively moralized because they enhance self-control. Several examples run contrary to these predictions and call into question the general relationship between self-control and cooperation.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e311
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