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On cooperative libertines and wicked puritans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2023

Roger Giner-Sorolla Open the ORCID record for Roger Giner-Sorolla [Opens in a new window]  and
Simon Myers
Roger Giner-Sorolla
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School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK. rsg@kent.ac.uk s.myers-2369@kent.ac.uk; https://www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/people/227/giner-sorolla-roger
Simon Myers
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK. rsg@kent.ac.uk s.myers-2369@kent.ac.uk; https://www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/people/227/giner-sorolla-roger
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Abstract

We agree with Fitouchi et al. that self-denial is sometimes moralized to signal capacity for cooperation, but propose that a person's cooperative character is more precisely judged by willingness to follow cultural, group, and interpersonal goals, for which many rules can serve as proxies, including rules about abstention. But asceticism is not a moral signal if its aims are destructive, while indulging impulses in a culturally approved way can also signal cooperation.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e306
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