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The missing moral content in contractarian models.

Susheel Kaushik Rompikuntla¹, Revati Shivnekar²

¹Department of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India rkaushik@iitk.ac.in.

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Area of Science:

Moral Psychology
Game Theory
Behavioral Economics

Background:

The target article conflates contractarianism and contractualism.
Existing models may overlook the influence of moral standards on reasoning during bargaining.

Purpose of the Study:

To critique the conflation of contractarianism and contractualism.
To propose an integration of fairness standards and individual differences into agreement-based models of moral cognition.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis and critique of existing theories.
Development of a theoretical framework integrating moral standards into bargaining models.

Main Results:

Conflating contractarianism and contractualism obscures the role of moral standards in bargaining.
Fairness and justification principles, beyond self-interest, are essential for explaining moral judgments in asymmetric interactions.

Conclusions:

Agreement-based models of moral cognition should incorporate standards of fairness and individual differences.
Moral judgments and decisions in asymmetric interactions are better explained by including principles beyond pure strategic self-interest.