TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - The needs of the many do not outweigh the needs of the few: the limits of individual sacrifice across diverse cultures
JO  - Journal of cognition and culture
A1  - Sheskin, Mark
A1  - Chevallier, Coralie
A1  - Adachi, Kuniko
A1  - Berniūnas, Renatas
A1  - Castelain, Thomas
A1  - Hulín, Martin
A1  - Lenfesty, Hillary
A1  - Regnier, Denis
A1  - Sebestény, Anikó
A1  - Baumard, Nicolas
SP  - 205
EP  - 223
VL  - 18
IS  - 1-2
N2  - A long tradition of research in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries has investigated how people weigh individual welfare versus group welfare in their moral judgments. Relatively less research has investigated the generalizability of results across non-WEIRD populations. In the current study, we ask participants across nine diverse cultures (Bali, Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, Japan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Serbia, and the USA) to make a series of moral judgments regarding both third-party sacrifice for group welfare and first-person sacrifice for group welfare. In addition to finding some amount of cross-cultural variation on most of our questions, we also find two cross-culturally consistent judgments: (1) when individuals are in equivalent situations, overall welfare should be maximized, and (2) harm to individuals should be taken into account, and some types of individual harm can trump overall group welfare. We end by discussing the specific pattern of variable and consistent features in the context of evolutionary theories of the evolution of morality.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1567-7095
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340026
ID  - ref1
ER  -