Learned normative reactions can motivate behavior without any prior interests.

Evidence

Finally, note that there may be a disanalogy between supervenience in the theory of mind and the psychological supervenience of normative commitments on interests. There may be no necessary connection in the latter. For example, we might suppose in many cases that people have learned to have normative reactions to particular matters and that this is their first motivation in many actual instances. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 423

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Interests crystallize into perceived moral commitments through psychological supervenience. (similarity 0.81)
• Internalization models of norms cannot explain how norms first arise. (similarity 0.79)
• Self-interest-based relationships become psychologically experienced as moral commitments (similarity 0.79)