Standing on principle
How moral principles can excuse disloyalty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21651167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mitchell Landers (0000-0003-4393-2871, University of California San Diego, corresponding author), Peter Descioli (0000-0001-5915-8564, Stony Brook University), Alex Mackiel (0000-0003-0465-1639, University of Chicago), Alex Shaw (0000-0002-8852-0179, University of Chicago) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 106883 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evolution and Human Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1090-5138 • E-ISSN: 1879-0607 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106883 |
| OpenAlex | W7155629564 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
Excuse · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Free Will and Agency · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Friends without benefits
Hamilton vs. Kant
Immanuel Kant
The Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship
Mysteries of morality
Moral Foundations Theory
“You didn’t take my side!”
Are self-conscious emotions about the self? Testing competing theories of shame and guilt across two disparate cultures
Keeping track of needs in communal and exchange relationships
Being biased against friends to appear unbiased
The costs of being consequentialist
Whoever is not with me is against me
The whistleblower's dilemma and the fairness–loyalty tradeoff
Strategic self-presentation and the avoidance of aversive events
Best Friends
Alliances, balance, and stability
Interpersonal attraction in exchange and communal relationships
Egocentric biases in availability and attribution
Waste management
The evolution of shame and its display
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
A solution to the mysteries of morality
Moral judgment of close relationship behaviors
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |