Peter DeScioli

Publication List Details

Period

2006 - 2008

Number

4

Co-Authors

Investigations into the problems of moral cognition (2008)

DeScioli, Peter

Evolutionary theorists since Darwin have viewed morality as a system designed for altruism. However, the experimentally demonstrated properties of moral cognition show that morality is not well...

Audience Effects on Moralistic Punishment (2006)

Kurzban, Robert, DeScioli, Peter, O'Brien, Erin

Punishment has been proposed as being central to two distinctively human phenomena: cooperation in groups and morality. Here we investigate moralistic punishment, a behavior designed to inflict costs...