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Nicolas Baumard
Researcher at PSL Research University
Publications - 85
Citations - 2158
Nicolas Baumard is an academic researcher from PSL Research University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Morality. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 72 publications receiving 1726 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicolas Baumard include University of Oxford & School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
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A mutualistic approach to morality: The evolution of fairness by partner choice
TL;DR: An approach to morality is developed as an adaptation to an environment in which individuals were in competition to be chosen and recruited in mutually advantageous cooperative interactions, and the best strategy is to treat others with impartiality and to share the costs and benefits of cooperation equally.
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Preschoolers are able to take merit into account when distributing goods.
TL;DR: This paper found that children as young as 3 years old are able to take merit into account by distributing tokens according to individual contributions but that this ability may be hidden by a preference for equality.
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Increased affluence explains the emergence of ascetic wisdoms and moralizing religions.
TL;DR: The idea, inspired by life history theory, that absolute affluence would have impacted human motivation and reward systems, nudging people away from short-term strategies (resource acquisition and coercive interactions) and promoting long- term strategies (self-control techniques and cooperative interactions) is put forward.
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Explaining moral religions
Nicolas Baumard,Pascal Boyer +1 more
TL;DR: Cognitive science models that account for many properties of religion can be extended to moralizing religions, and suggest that proportionality-based morality is highly intuitive to human beings.
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Moral Reputation: An Evolutionary and Cognitive Perspective
TL;DR: Both moral and reputational concerns are commonly involved in moral behaviour and cannot be pried apart without understanding their intricate relationships.