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    "pk": 50043,
    "title": "How the logic of bargaining shapes moral judgments about resource divisions",
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    "abstract": "For recent contractualist accounts of moral cognition, moral judgments should coincide with what rational agents would agree to in a negotiation, accounting for their relative bargaining positions. But past research documents widespread egalitarian moral intuitions; impartiality may also require abstracting away from power asymmetries. How can these perspectives be reconciled? We suggest a key difference lies in whether the logic of bargaining drives the interaction, turning existing asymmetries into bargaining power differences. In Study 1, two parties engage in a take-it-or-leave-it negotiation. In Study 2, they can trade with a third party. In both cases, third-party moral judgments about the morally best split of a fixed amount overwhelmingly favor the advantaged party. They can be precisely predicted using classic models from bargaining theory. By contrast, moral intuitions are completely reversed—reflecting redistributive or egalitarian concerns—in a donation setting where the logic of bargaining does not apply.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Social cognition; Computational Modeling"
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    "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)",
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        {
            "first_name": "Xavier",
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            "last_name": "Roberts-Gaal",
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            "institution": "Harvard University",
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        {
            "first_name": "Arthur",
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            "last_name": "Le Pargneux",
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            "institution": "Harvard University",
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            "last_name": "Cushman",
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            "institution": "Harvard University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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