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Robert Kurzban, Associate Professor in Psychology at University of Pennsylvania and directs the Penn Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology, giving a lecture as part of the Interacting Minds Center at Aarhus University's lecture series.

Current evolutionary theories of morality maintain that moral judgment and behavior function to deliver benefits (or prevent harm) to others. I'll discuss an alternative view, that morality is, instead, best thought of as a system of coordinating group behavior when conflicts arise. That is, the proposal is that morality is, in essence, a dynamic coordination strategy in which bystanders coordinate side-taking based on a public signal derived from disputants' actions rather than their identities. By focusing on disputants' actions, bystanders can dynamically change which individuals they support across different disputes, simultaneously solving the problems of coordination and exploitation. In this talk, I apply these ideas to explain a variety of otherwise mysterious moral phenomena and present a series of new experimental findings consistent with the proposal.