Citation

Ginges J. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2019; 23(1): 1-3.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, 80 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10011, USA. Electronic address: gingesj@newschool.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.tics.2018.11.001

PMID

30497936

Abstract

There is a moral logic to reasoning about political violence. People will often fight not for individual or collective material gain, but because of their commitment to abstract moral and sacred ideas. Moreover, decisions to support or oppose war are descriptively deontological and are relatively insensitive to material costs or benefits.

Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Language: en

Keywords

cognition; culture; morality; political psychology; rationality; war