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. 2022 Dec;26(12):1062-1063.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.08.008. Epub 2022 Sep 20.

Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power

Rebecca Saxe  1
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Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power

Rebecca Saxe. Trends Cogn Sci. 2022 Dec.

Abstract

How do people perceive and pursue legitimate power? For the social sciences, this question is venerable. Yet, for cognitive science, it offers fresh and generative opportunities to explore how adults evaluate legitimacy, how children learn to do so, and what difference legitimate power makes for people's thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Keywords: legitimacy; moral cognition;Theory of Mind; social cognition.

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