Social transmission favours the ‘morally good’ over the ‘merely arousing’
Moral stories are pervasive in human culture, forming the basis of religious texts, folklore, and newspaper articles. We used a linear transmission chain procedure to test three competing hypotheses: (1) that moral content in general is preferentially transmitted between individuals compared to non-...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
2019
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| Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |