... on brain areas typically associated with subjective value (vmPFC) rather than integration of material costs (dlPFC) during decision-making, supporting the notion that decisions on costly sacrifices may not be mediated by cost-benefit computation. costly sacrifices will to fight and die sacred values...

...This chapter reviews a body of research on sacred values and cultural conflict. Research conducted in the West Bank, Iran, Indonesia, and India reveals that when people transform a resource, idea, or activity into a sacred value, normative approaches to dispute resolution may fail. In a series...

... neuroscience trolley problem convention protected and sacred values heuristics and biases dual-process th The past decade has seen a renewed interest in moral psychology. Empirical research on morality is not new, of course. There has been a long tradition in different fields, such as social...

... sacred values. Drawing on real-life examples, empirical psychology, and philosophical reflection, this chapter examines the way in which devotion and sacred values play a pervasive—but often hidden—role in human life. In addition, this introductory chapter provides a brief summary of the book’s...

...Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals. Paul Katsafanas, Oxford University Press. © Paul Katsafanas 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192867674.003.0003 Sacred values might seem ethically problematic. After all, sacred values are treated as inviolable (tradeoffs...

...: there is an important distinction between ordinary values and what are sometimes called sacred values. 8 In moral philosophy, it is commonly assumed that all normative phenomena are roughly on par. They are all weighable, perhaps with a few complications. There may be some incommensurables or incomparables: perhaps...

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... of one’s moral judgments through a controlled reasoning process, not only would one weed out all impossible moral requirements, one would also weed out all sacred values (and the relationships that are partly constituted by one’s sacralizing of their value). Human attachment, I believe, requires...

..., ritualized behaviors, overimitation, synchrony, sacred values) are examined at different social scales, from small-scale forager to large-scale urban societies. The role of religion in transitional societies is discussed, as well as the impact of witchcraft, superhuman policing, and the cultural evolution...

...Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals. Paul Katsafanas, Oxford University Press. © Paul Katsafanas 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192867674.003.0002 This chapter offers a unified account of sacred values by drawing on empirical psychology and philosophical work...

..., chapter discusses inertia traps that individuals can fall into when they fail to decide between equally adverse choices. plan formulation choice trimodal decision-making conflict values sacred values trade-offs Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. —Tryon Edwards...

... it are problematic in the case of sacred values and associated moral requirements, because this reasoning process may involve thinking the unthinkable. confidence moral authority moral requirement s consistency constructivism moral realism Rawls John reflective equilibrium entitlements ideology...

...Evolutionary theories of religion and sacred values are essential for understanding current trends in terrorist activity. We clarify religion's role in facilitating terror and outline recent theoretical developments that focus on four cross-culturally recurrent features of religion: communal...

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