Moral Structure: The Interrelations of Moral Behavior, Moral Judgment, and Moral Affect

1975 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Santrock
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Moral Structure

Moral behavior and moral judgment of children.

1952 ◽  
Vol 47 (2, Suppl) ◽  
pp. 463-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Refia Ugurel-Semin
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior

This Isn’t the Free Will Worth Looking For

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Monroe ◽  
Garrett L. Brady ◽  
Bertram F. Malle
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Perceived Choice ◽  
The Relationship

According to previous research, threatening people’s belief in free will may undermine moral judgments and behavior. Four studies tested this claim. Study 1 used a Velten technique to threaten people’s belief in free will and found no effects on moral behavior, judgments of blame, and punishment decisions. Study 2 used six different threats to free will and failed to find effects on judgments of blame and wrongness. Study 3 found no effects on moral judgment when manipulating general free will beliefs but found strong effects when manipulating the perceived choice capacity of the judged agent. Study 4 used pretested narratives that varied agents’ apparent free will and found that perceived choice capacity mediated the relationship between free will and blame. These results suggest that people’s general beliefs about whether free will exists have no impact on moral judgments but specific judgments about the agent’s choice capacity do.

Ease of Retrieval and the Moral Circle

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon M. Laham
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Metacognitive Experiences

Two studies demonstrate that the ease with which moral circle exemplars come to mind influences the size of the moral circle and moral behavior. Participants who generated three exemplars had significantly larger circles than those asked to generate 15. Further, those who generated three exemplars were more likely to take a newsletter providing information on how to help circle members. These studies demonstrate the impact of metacognitive experiences on moral judgment and behavior, and highlight the importance of including metacognitive variables in any comprehensive account of moral judgment.

United we stand, divided we fall: Cognition, emotion, and the moral link between them

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Manfrinati
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Dual Process Theory ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
The Brain

AbstractContrary to Greene's dual-process theory of moral judgment (Greene 2013), this commentary suggests that the network view of the brain proposed by Pessoa, in which emotion and cognition may be used as labels in the context of certain behaviors, but will not map clearly into compartmentalized pieces of the brain, could represent a better explanation of the rationale behind people's moral behavior.

scholarly journals Disruption of Moral Reasoning and Moral Judgment: Moral Injury and Healing Through Forgiveness

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard La Fleur
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Moral Belief ◽  
Moral Injury ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Moral Structure

Although morality (systemic judgment of determining right or wrong), has been taught, researched and written about over the decades, society has been faced with the challenges of a questionable moral structure and a plethora of moral injuries. This paper reviews current literature and research about moral injury as well as the structure on which morality is founded. Current research shows that one of the consequences of an irreconcilable moral belief is moral injury or a soul injury, (coined by Dr. Marvin Westwood in a recent lecture at St. Thomas University), with symptoms that are similar to PTSD and other mental illnesses or disorders. By focusing on moral injury as a deep psychological and spiritual wound, forgiveness as a theological and spiritual approach, is the most effective framework to address the wound of moral injury.

The development of intent-based moral judgment and moral behavior in the context of indirect reciprocity: A cross-cultural study

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 525-533
Author(s):  
Jing Li ◽  
Wenwen Hou ◽  
Liqi Zhu ◽  
Michael Tomasello
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Developmental Origins ◽  
Indirect Reciprocity ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
German Children

The current study aimed to investigate the cultural differences in the developmental origins of children’s intent-based moral judgment and moral behavior in the context of indirect reciprocity. To this end, we compared how German and Chinese children interpret and react to antisocial and prosocial interactions between puppets. An actor puppet performed either a positive or negative act toward a prosocial or antisocial target puppet with the intention to cause harm or not; 197 three and five-year-old children participated as a third party and were asked to judge the actor puppet’s behavior and to distribute stickers. Results showed that 3-year-old Chinese children were able to take intention and context into account when making moral judgments and distributing resources, whereas German children did not show sensitivity to intention until the age of 5. These findings suggest that culture may mediate children’s intent-based moral judgment and moral behavior in the context of indirect reciprocity.

Morality

2018 ◽  
pp. 316-342
Author(s):  
Jesse Graham ◽  
Piercarlo Valdesolo
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Psychology ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Situational Effects

Since the early 2000s, morality research in personality and social psychology has exploded, with more articles on moral judgment and moral behavior published in the first fifth of the 21st century than the entirety of the 20th century. However, while moral psychology is flourishing in the field, it remains deeply divided in several respects, with largely separate literatures for moral judgment and moral behavior, as well as separations between individual differences and situational effects for each. This chapter follows the two main cleavages in moral psychology, covering cultural and individual differences in moral judgment, situational effects on moral judgment, cultural and individual differences in moral behavior, and situational effects on moral behavior. Further, it highlights evidence of person–situation interactions for both moral judgment and moral behavior, and maps out several future directions for moral psychology.

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