Robert Kurzban

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology

3720 Walnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6196

United States

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The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 60, p. 1633, 2007, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 06-47, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 08-07
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2008
Paul H. Robinson, Robert Kurzban and Owen D. Jones
University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences
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criminal law, law & society, psychology, empirical evidence, moral blameworthiness, biological underpinnings, evolutionary processes, development of moral judgment, views of justice, intuition

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Concordance & Conflict in Intuitions of Justice

University of Pennsylvania Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-38, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 6, 2007
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 22 Sep 2006
Paul H. Robinson and Robert Kurzban
University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology
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desert, blame, empirical studies, moral philosophy, intuitions, psychology, criminal justice policy, criminal law

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Explaining Clustering in Social Networks: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Cascading Benefits

Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 27, Nos. 2-3, pp. 173-87, 2006
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2007
Sheen S. Levine and Robert Kurzban
University of Texas at Dallas and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology
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Social Network, Cluster, Tie, Broker, Alliance, Evolution, Exchange

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Intuitions of Punishment

Chicago Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 1633, 2010, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 10-18
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2011
Owen D. Jones and Robert Kurzban
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology
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Crime, Criminal Law, Punishment, Core Wrongs, Justice, Intuitions of Justice, Culture, Evolution, Evolutionary Analysis in Law

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Realism, Punishment & Reform

Chicago Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 1611, 2010, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-18, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 10-19
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2011
Paul H. Robinson, Robert Kurzban and Owen D. Jones
University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences
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Criminal law, core of wrongdoing, intuitions of justice, social reform, significance of resulting harm, agreement and disagreement about judgments of justice, judging relative blameworthiness, violence, theft, reform realism

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Adaptationist Punishment in Humans

Context and the Evolution of Mechanisms for Solving Collective Action Problems Paper
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 18 May 2010
Robert Kurzban and Peter DeScioli
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology and Chapman University - Economic Science Institute
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A Solution to the Mysteries of Morality

139 Psychological Bulletin 477 (2013), USC CLASS Research Paper No. 16-3
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Jan 2016
Peter DeScioli and Robert Kurzban
Chapman University Economic Science Institute and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology
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moral psychology, evolution of morality, condemnation, choosing sides, side-taking

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The Evolution of Altruism in Humans

Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 66, pp. 575-599, 2015
Posted: 09 Jan 2015
Robert Kurzban, Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew and Stuart West
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology, University of Oxford and University of Oxford

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