Above and below the surface: Genetic and cultural factors in the development of values

Sara Dellantonio; Luigi Pastore; Gianluca Esposito

doi:10.1017/S0140525X16000741

Above and below the surface: Genetic and cultural factors in the development of values

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2017

Sara Dellantonio ,

Luigi Pastore and

Gianluca Esposito

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Sara Dellantonio: Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, I-38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy. sara.dellantonio@unitn.ithttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara_Dellantonio
Luigi Pastore: Affiliation:
Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari “A. Moro”, 70121 Bari (BA), Italy. luigi.pastore@uniba.ithttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luigi_Pastore
Gianluca Esposito: Affiliation:
Affiliative Behaviour & Physiology Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, I-38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy. gianluca.esposito@unitn.ithttp://abp.dipsco.unitn.it Social & Affective Neuroscience Lab, Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, 637332, Singapore. gianluca.esposito@ntu.edu.sghttps://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/sanlab/

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In the Attitude–Scenario–Emotion (ASE) model, social relationships are subpersonnally realized by sentiments: a network of emotions/attitudes representing relational values. We discuss how relational values differ from moral values and raise the issue of their ontogeny from genetic and cultural factors. Because relational values develop early in life, they cannot rely solely on cognition as suggested by the notion of attitude.

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Information: Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e235

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16000741 [Opens in a new window]
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