Are we all implicit puritans? New evidence that work and sex are intuitively moralized in both traditional and non-traditional cultures

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Warren Tierney, Wilson Cyrus-Lai, Eric Luis Uhlmann

2023 Behavioral and Brain Sciences Vol. 46 Review Cited by 0 Quartile

Abstract

Contradicting our earlier claims of American moral exceptionalism, recent self-replication evidence from our laboratory indicates that implicit puritanism characterizes the judgments of people across cultures. Implicit cultural evolution may lag behind explicit change, such that differences between traditional and non-traditional cultures are greater at a deliberative than an intuitive level. Not too deep down, perhaps we are all implicit puritans. Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press.

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Organisational Behaviour Area/Marketing Area, Insead, Singapore, Singapore