Our recent review demonstrates that “purity” is a messy construct with at least 9 popular
scientific understandings. Cultural beliefs about self-control help unify some of these …

We extend the target authors' moral disciplining theory (MDT) by discussing signaling,
proscriptive and prescriptive morality, and the dynamics by which signaling may operate in …

Some aspects of moral disciplining theory (MDT)–the association between cooperation and
self-control; the notion that people and societies value sacrifice and costly prosocial …

Purity violations overlap with other moral domains. They are not uniquely characterized by
hypothesized markers of purity–the witness's emotion of disgust, taint to perpetrator's soul, or …

There is wide agreement that the mind has different mechanisms it can use to make moral
judgments. But how does it decide which one to use when? Recent theoretical work has …

Commentators discussed the coherence and validity of a minimalist approach to ownership
intuitions, in ways that make it possible to clarify the model, re-evaluate its cognitive …

Contradicting our earlier claims of American moral exceptionalism, recent self-replication
evidence from our laboratory indicates that implicit Puritanism characterizes the judgments …

Este artículo explora una perspectiva naturalista y culturalmente situada sobre la
ontogénesis de la cognición cooperativa y las normas de justicia en dilemas distributivos …

In this commentary we challenge Fitouchi et al.'s puritanical morality account by presenting
evidence showing (1) that pursuing harmless pleasures can actually support self-regulation …

The theory proposed by Fitouchi et al. misses the core of puritanical morality: Cruel
punishment for harmless actions. Punishment is mutually harmful, unlike cooperation which …