DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25101581 ISSN: 0140-525X
Delegation to legitimate authority as a resource rational mechanism
Setayesh Radkani, Rebecca SaxeAbstract
Diverse cognitive processes underlying human moral judgment can be understood as resource rational approximations of full bargaining of social contracts. We extend this theory by highlighting delegation to legitimate representatives as another key resource rational strategy. Considering delegation introduces a new set of cognitive mechanisms and heuristics that could be incorporated in a resource rational contractualist theory of morality.