Morality may have evolved via partner choice over partner control
Evidence
Baumard et al. propose that our morality has evolved mainly through “partner choice” (and that individuals choose to avoid and not to cooperate with defectors), rather than “partner control” (with individuals retaliating and imposing costs on defectors). — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 347
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the partner-choice vs. partner-control distinction central to the mutualistic theory of morality.
- XREF: connects to: Morality evolved because fair partners were preferred in cooperative interactions — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 4; Partner choice deters cheating without anyone intending to punish — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 29; Morality evolves from individual partner-choice competition, not group selection. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 605 (+7 more)
Related
- Morality evolves from individual partner-choice competition, not group selection. (similarity 0.95)
- Morality evolved as a propensity for fair cost-benefit sharing among cooperators. (similarity 0.90)
- Morality evolved because fair partners were preferred in cooperative interactions (similarity 0.90)
- Fairness evolves from partner choice, not partner control (similarity 0.89)
- Partner choice predicts fair cooperation while group selection predicts utilitarian cooperation. (similarity 0.89)
- Partner-choice cooperation theory does not explain the intrinsic moral sense. (similarity 0.88)
- Partner selection produces genuine moral feelings, not just narrow self-interested cooperation. (similarity 0.88)
- Morality evolves in two steps, from selfish reciprocity to intrinsic fairness. (similarity 0.88)
- A partner-choice account of morality predicts avoidant emotions dominate moral life (similarity 0.87)
- Fairness is not reducible to mutualistic partner choice. (similarity 0.87)
- Partner choice selects among folk-theorem equilibria just as group selection does. (similarity 0.87)
- Partner choice deters cheating without anyone intending to punish (similarity 0.87)
- Partner choice theory shifts cooperation research away from dyadic Prisoner’s Dilemma models. (similarity 0.87)
- Morality is about fair cooperation, not maximizing welfare. (similarity 0.86)
- Meritocratic fairness norms evolved as adaptations to partner-choice markets (similarity 0.86)
Broader Connections
- Fairness evolves from partner choice, not partner control
#expands(0.90) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 610 - Partner-choice cooperation theory does not explain the intrinsic moral sense.
#contradicts(0.85) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 56 - Partner selection produces genuine moral feelings, not just narrow self-interested cooperation.
#expands(0.85) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 202 - Morality evolves from individual partner-choice competition, not group selection.
#qualifies(0.82) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 605 - A partner-choice account of morality predicts avoidant emotions dominate moral life
#expands(0.75) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 348