PSYC 472 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: John Rawls, Dictator Game, Correlated Equilibrium
Document Summary
Morality is for dynamic coordination: conflicts pose the problem of which side to choose. Choosing based on friendships leads to even and costly fights (want to avoid this high cost) Non-kin cooperation (friendship) is unique to humans creates this problem b/c not just about siding w/ family. Selection for psychological mechanism that avoids even, costly fights. Solution 2: use actions of participants (not identities) as coordinated mechanism (explains strategic properties of morality versus altruism models) If we all have same set of moral rules, coordination will automatically happen. You do bad thing, people will gang up on you, but same for anyone else who does bad thing ( immoral ) no one at any relative loss to anyone else in society. Dynamic coordination: parse actions of others check actions against rules condemn actor whose action violates rule (device for coordination not altruism) Result: third parties all side against same person low cost conflict.
