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dc.contributor.advisor | Price, M | - |
dc.contributor.author | Monroe, Amy | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-24T10:35:18Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-24T10:35:18Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/21080 | - |
dc.description | This thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University London | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This chapter introduces the subject of interest for the thesis – a social emotion called moral elevation. The first section gives a brief summary of evolutionary explanations for human prosocial behaviour, and locates the thesis’ topic within a broader framework of current academic enquiry. The second section summarizes the extant moral elevation literature and identifies a gap in the literature concerning whether the emotion may have been sculpted by natural selection. A précis of the criteria for labeling a trait an adaptation is offered, and a framework for understanding emotions as evolved cognitive mechanisms is outlined. Two theories about the possible adaptive function performed by moral elevation are explained; the relationship-building hypothesis, and the reputation-management hypothesis. Prima facie reasons for preferring the latter over the former are laid out, and the chapter ends with a summary of predictions about elevation’s form, which are to be expanded on in subsequent chapters. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Brunel University London | en_US |
dc.relation.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/21080/1/FulltextThesis.pdf | - |
dc.subject | Evolutionary Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject | Competitive Altruism | en_US |
dc.subject | Moral Elevation | en_US |
dc.subject | Emotions | en_US |
dc.title | Exploring a functionalist model of moral elevation | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Psychology Dept of Life Sciences Theses |
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