Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

By Joshua D. Greene. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Philosophy

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Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment (2020, background): “In the words of the psychologist Joshua Greene, ‘Morality is a set of psychological adaptations that allow otherwise selﬁsh individuals to reap the beneﬁts of cooperation’ (2014, 23).”
How Do Fairness Definitions Fare?: Examining Public Attitudes Towards Algorithmic Definitions of Fairness (2018, background): “(2018), Grgić-Hlača et al. (2018) studied human perceptions of features used in algorithmic decision making, Binns et al.”
The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies (2017, background): “…and “virtue” as a domain of explicit information consisting of interpersonal social phenomena that entail or imply a cost or benefit to others (Cronk, 1994; Gray, Young, & Waytz, 2012; Greene, 2013; Haidt, 2008; McKay & Whitehouse, 2014; Purzycki, 2013; Rossano, 2008; Smetana, 2006; Turiel, 1983).”
How foreign language shapes moral judgment (2015, background): “2 We follow Greene (2014) in using deontological and utilitarian to mean respectively "characteristically deontological" and "characteristically utilitarian" as a function of the response content, not the underlying motivation.”
Cognition (1999, neutral): “Support for the claim that harmony is driven by a cognitive bias in learning comes from a number of experimental studies investigating harmony in the noun phrase (Culbertson et al., 2020a; Culbertson & Newport, 2015; Culbertson et al., 2012).”
Deconstructing intent to reconstruct morality (2015, background): “Reconstructing morality Kinds of moral evaluation Current theories largely agree that morality is not a single, unified process, but rather a hodge-podge of different cognitive mechanisms [25–27].”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “These motives can “tune” social and affective processes even if those processes begin as relatively stable and automatic (Greene, 2013; Tomasello, 2009).”
Coordinate to cooperate or compete: Abstract goals and joint intentions in social interaction (2016, background): “Evolutionary mechanisms (cultural or biological) which favored groups that followed these principles, because of how they promote cooperation and the advantage cooperation bestows to groups and their members, are also likely contributors (Greene, 2014; Rand & Nowak, 2013).”
Consequentialist conditional cooperation in social dilemmas with imperfect information (2017, background): “To be successful, AI researchers will have to understand human social heuristics and construct agents that are in tune with human moral and social intuitions (Bonnefon et al., 2016; Greene, 2014).”
The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles (2015, methodology): “orithms that we are willing to accept as citizens and to be subjected to as car owners. Here we initiate the data-driven study of driverless car ethics, inspired by the methods of experimental ethics [12]. We conducted six online surveys between June and November 2015. All studies were programmed on”
Free Association in Psychology and the Grid Elaboration Method (2014, background): “Research and theory in this domain increasingly emphasizes intuitive and emotional facets of moral judgment, as well as ingroup/outgroup biases that shape conceptions of right and wrong (Greene, 2013).”
The Ethics of Accident-Algorithms for Self-Driving Cars: an Applied Trolley Problem? (2016, background): “(Greene 2013; Mikhail 2013).”
The Moral Foreign-Language Effect (2016, background): “Some researchers have already begun to explore the possibility that dual-process theories extend to moral judgment (Craigie, 2011; Cushman, 2013; Cushman, Young, & Greene, 2010; Greene, 2008, 2013; Sunstein, 2005).”