Preface DESERVING THEORY
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Deserving, including equity and fairness, lies at the heart of social–moral cognition. The deserving schema—your deserts should be proportional to your deserving—is age-old. The idea of an algebraic model of proportionality goes back to Aristotle and was much discussed in the latter half of the 20 century in terms of equity theory. But to judge proportionality we must be able to measure how much people deserve. Lacking true measurement, proportionality remained qualitative verbalism. This measurement problem was resolved with the functional theory of measurement. Moral algebra of deserving has done quite well. These experiments led into a wider field of deserving. Previous work on positive deserving had been largely concerned with third-party judgments of fairness ideals in two-person groups. Major issues including first-person judgments, unfairness, and social comparison were neglected. These issues require expanded conceptual frameworks. Cognitive theory is one direction for future work. Deserving theory exhibits the same cognitive processes and algebraic laws that have been found in person science, social attitudes, and judgment–decision. The present impoverishing fragmentation of these areas can be replaced by fruitful unification. Social relevance, or outcome validity, is a second direction for future work. The third-party judgments of deserving and equity miss much of everyday life. Some workers have moved in this direction. Their work argues that immersion in everyday life is essential for social relevance. DESERVING THEORY (29)
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تاریخ انتشار 2015