Nonhuman Species’ Reactions to Inequity and their Implications for Fairness

By Sarah F. Brosnan. Social justice research, 2006

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Moral Decision Making in Autonomous Systems: Enforcement, Moral Emotions, Dignity, Trust, and Deception (2012, background): “, mirror neurons for empathy [44], neural structures for ethical behavior [25], [42], and ethological models of animal regret [16], [18]).”
Social psychological perspectives on the legitimation of social inequality: Past, present and future (2013, unknown): “Fairness and justice are said to be fundamental human needs (Lerner, 1980; Lerner & Clayton, 2011) that are rooted in evolved dispositions to experience inequity aversion (e.g., Boehm, 2012; Brosnan, 2006).”
Organizational Neuroscience: Taking Organizational Theory Inside the Neural Black Box (2011, background): “These differential responses between unfair-to-self and unfair-to-others is even stronger among our evolutionary cousin, the chimpanzee (Brosnan, 2006).”
The Moral Psychology Handbook (2010, background): “gratitude (Brosnan & de Waal, 2002) and inequity aversion (Brosnan & de Waal, 2003; Brosnan, 2006), are homologous to psychological systems in other primates.”
Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism (2012, background): “4), and in Brown’s (1991) list of human universals.”