Which social decisions are intuitive? Which are deliberative? The dual-process approach to human sociality has emerged in the last decades as a vibrant and exciting area of research. Here, I review the existing literature on the cognitive basis of cooperation, altruism, honesty, equity-efficiency, positive and negative reciprocity, and moral judgments . For each of these domains, I list a number of open problems that I believe to be crucial to further advance our understanding of human social cognition . I conclude by making an attempt to introduce a game-theoretical framework URLanize the existing empirical evidence. This framework seems promising , as it turns out to make predictions that are generally in line with the experimental data in all but one domain: positive reciprocity. I tried to keep the review self-contained, exhaustive, and research-oriented. My hope is that it can contribute to bring further attention to this fascinating area of research.
Which social decisions are intuitive? Which are deliberative? The dual-process approach to human sociality has emerged in the last decades as a vibrant and exciting area of research. Here, I review the existing literature on the cognitive basis of cooperation, altruism, honesty, positive and negative reciprocity, and utilitarianism . For each of these domains, I list a number of open problems that I believe to be crucial to further advance our understanding of the cognitive basis of human sociality . I conclude by making an attempt to introduce a game-theoretical framework URLanize the existing empirical evidence. This framework seems to be a promising starting point , as it turns out to make predictions that are qualitatively in line with the experimental data in all but two domains: honesty (when lying harms "abstract others") and positive reciprocity. I tried to keep the review self-contained, exhaustive, and research-oriented. My hope is that it can contribute to bring further attention to this fascinating area of research.
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