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Susheel Kaushik Rompikuntla1, Revati Shivnekar2
1Department of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India rkaushik@iitk.ac.in.
Abstract:
This commentary critiques the target article's conflation of contractarianism and contractualism, arguing it overlooks how moral standards influence reasoning in bargaining. We propose integrating standards of fairness and individual differences into agreement-based models of moral cognition, arguing that principles of fairness and justification that go beyond strategic self-interest are indispensable in explaining moral judgments and decisions in asymmetric interactions.
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