Many people feel compelled to disassociate themselves from wrongdoing. We call judgments to the effect “disassociation intuitions.” Do disassociation intuitions have a common cause? Why do they seem so obvious and resistant to countervailing reasons? How did they become so widespread? Here, we argue that disassociation intuitions are a natural product of gene-culture co-evolution. We also consider the mechanism that gene-culture co-evolution employed to achieve this result, arguing that a plausible candidate is disgust and its cultural echoes. This theory of disassociation intuitions suggests a promising research program in the philosophy of psychology, which provides new ways of thinking about higher cognitive emotions, and biologically constrained cognitive capacities generally.

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厌恶和污染的逻辑：生物学、文化和规范（过度）遵守的演变

许多人觉得有必要与不法行为划清界限。我们称这种影响为“解离直觉”的判断。解离直觉有共同的原因吗？为什么它们看起来如此明显并且抵制反补贴理由？它们是如何变得如此普遍的？在这里，我们认为解离直觉是基因-文化共同进化的自然产物。我们还考虑了基因-文化协同进化为实现这一结果所采用的机制，认为一个合理的候选者是厌恶及其文化回声。这种分离直觉理论提出了心理学哲学中一个有前途的研究计划，它提供了思考高级认知情绪和普遍受生物学限制的认知能力的新方法。