#690 Catherine Molho: Norms, Punishment, Moral Emotions, Disgust, and Interdependence
RECORDED ON JULY 12th 2022.
Dr. Catherine Molho is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at VU Amsterdam. Dr. Molho is a psychologist studying human cooperation, morality, and the role of emotions in decision-making. She draws upon insights from social and evolutionary psychology, behavioral economics, and evolutionary biology to better understand the factors underlying cooperative and punitive decisions. In her work, she uses decision-making experiments, questionnaires, and intensive experience sampling methods.
In this episode, we talk about norms, moral emotions, and human cooperation. We start with norms, and their social functions. We talk about norm violations, and punishment. We get into the moral emotions of disgust and anger. We discuss how disgust sensitivity might link to opposition to immigration. We also talk about cooperation in contexts of hierarchy and power asymmetries, and Interdependence Theory and human cooperation.
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Intro
Norms, and their functions
When has a norm been violated?
When do people punish norm offenders?
Individual differences in punishment behavior
Direct and indirect punishment
The functions of gossip
Moral emotions: disgust and anger
Moral disgust
Disgust sensitivity and opposition to immigration
Cooperation in contexts of hierarchy and power asymmetries
Interdependence Theory and human cooperation
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Faculty page: https://bit.ly/3CLFJI3
Website: https://bit.ly/3MZA9VF
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3Ikvh9W
Twitter handle: @catherinemolho