Interdisciplinary perspectives on interpersonal relations and the evaluation process: Culture, norms, and the moral order

This paper builds on the recent increased interest in interpersonal relations and evaluative judgements, especially in relation to intercultural interaction. It explores three key questions: (1) what or who is evaluated; (2) what warrants underpin the evaluations; and (3) the role of culture, if any, in the evaluation process. It draws on work on norms and the moral order/moral foundations in pragmatics, moral psychology and cross-cultural...