When rules are over-ruled: Virtual bargaining as a contractualist method of moral judgment

Autor: Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Nick Chater, Fiery Andrews Cushman, Joshua Tenenbaum
Rok vydání: 2022
Popis: Rules help guide our behavior -- particularly in complex social contexts. But rules sometimes give us the "wrong" answer. How do we know when it's okay to break the rules? In this paper, we argue that we sometimes use *contractualist* (agreement-based) mechanisms to determine when a rule can be broken. Our model draws on a theory of social interactions--- "virtual bargaining" ---that assumes that actors engage in a simulated bargaining process when navigating the social world. We present experimental data which suggests that rule-breaking decisions are sometimes driven by virtual bargaining and show that these data cannot be explained by more traditional rule-based or outcome-based approaches.
Databáze: OpenAIRE