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Moral psychology

the proposal that people share an innate, largely unconscious system of principles for judging actions, analogous to linguistic grammar.

In moral psychology, universal moral grammar refers to the proposal that people share an innate, largely unconscious system of principles for judging actions, analogous to linguistic grammar. This meaning comes from Mikhail (2007) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.[1]

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Mikhail, J. (2007). Universal moral grammar: theory, evidence and the future. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(4), 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.12.007

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