The moral disciplining theory proposes that people moralize excessive innocent behavior to
discipline others to behave in ways that facilitate cooperation. However, such disciplining …

Human moral judgments are both precise, with clear intuitions about right and wrong, and at
the same time obscure, as they seem to result from principles whose logic often escapes us …

The suggestion that there is a need to moralize bodily pleasures for uncooperative self-
control failures doesn't fit with the historical record. I counter that the development of …

There is a puzzle in reconciling the widespread presence of puritanical norms condemning
harmless pleasures with the theory that morality evolved to reap the benefits of cooperation …

This commentary raises three points in response to the target article. First, what appear to be
victimless behaviors to members of highly individualistic, post-industrial societies might have …

Fitouchi and colleagues persuasively argue against popular disgust-based accounts of
puritanical morality. However, they do not consider alternative disgust-based accounts of …

Fitouchi et al. claim that seemingly victimless pleasures and nonproductive activities are
moralized because they alter self-control. Their account predicts that:(1) victimless excesses …

In many societies, third parties may be held liable to punishment even though they did not
take part in the original offence. These retributive practices, commonly referred to under the …