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A lifelong preoccupation with the sociality of moral obligation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2020

Zoe Liberman Open the ORCID record for Zoe Liberman [Opens in a new window]  and
John W. Du Bois
Zoe Liberman
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Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA93106-3100. zoeliberman@ucsb.edulabs.psych.ucsb.edu/liberman/zoe
John W. Du Bois
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Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA93106-3100. dubois@ucsb.edudubois.faculty.linguistics.ucsb.edu
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Abstract

Tomasello provides compelling evidence that children understand that people are morally obligated toward members of their social group. We call for expanding the scope of inquiry to encompass the full developmental trajectory of humans’ understanding of the relation between moral obligation, sociality, and stancetaking in interaction. We suggest that humans display a lifelong preoccupation with the sociality of moral obligation.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e77
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