AI RESEARCH
An Algebraic Exposition of the Theory of Dyadic Morality
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.16153v1 Announce Type: new This paper provides an algebraic exposition of the theory of dyadic morality (TDM), a psychological model of moral judgment grounded in a simple two-node template: an intentional agent causing harm to a vulnerable patient. We formalize TDM using structural causal modeling (SCM) notation and identify three psychological operators (typecasting operator, completion operator, and valence-dependent inference mechanism) that extend standard SCM to capture how people compute moral judgments under constraints.