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Jan 18, 2019 · During the past years, many researchers have examined questions relating to the psychology of morality. Our main conclusion from the studies reviewed here is that these have yielded insights that are unbalanced, neglect some key features of human morality specified in influential theoretical perspectives, and are not well integrated.
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The Psychology of Morality: A Review and Analysis of...
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- Understanding Moral Behavior
- Intrapersonal Mechanisms
- Interpersonal Mechanisms
- Intragroup Mechanisms
- Seminal Publications
- Observed Trends and Neglected Issues
- Imbalance in Research Themes Addressed and Mechanisms Examined
- Key Characteristics of Human Morality Remain Underexamined in Research
- The Paradox of Morality
- Conclusion
- Authors’ Note
- Declaration of Conflicting Interests
- Funding
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Our conclusion so far is that researchers in social psychology have displayed a considerable interest in examining topics relating to morality. However, it is not self-evident how the multitude of research topics and issues that are addressed in this literature can be organized. This is why we set out to organize the available research in this area...
All the ways in which people consider, think, and reason by themselves to determine what is morally right refer to intra-personal mechanisms. Even if these considerations are elic-ited by social norms or reflect the behavior observed in others, it is important to assess the extent to which they emerge as guiding principles for individuals to be use...
The way people relate to others, respond to their moral behaviors, and connect to them tap into interpersonal mech-anisms. Again we note that such mechanisms are relevant for research questions in all five research themes, as relations with others can inform the way people reason about morality, the way they judge other individuals or groups, the w...
The role of moral concerns in defining group norms, the ten-dency of individuals to conform to such norms, and their resulting inclusion versus exclusion from the group all indi-cate intragroup mechanisms relevant to morality. Considering how groups influence individuals is relevant for our under-standing of the way people reason about morality and...
We identified two types of seminal publications. First, we assessed which (theoretical or empirical) publications out-side our set (excluding methodological publications) are most frequently cited in the publications we examined. Second, we determined which of the empirical publications within our set have received an outstanding number of citation...
Substantial knowledge has accumulated about the way peo-ple think about morality; however, we know much less about how this affects their moral behavior. We draw this conclu-sion based on the observation that by far most of the pub-lished studies in our review have addressed issues relating to moral reasoning—what people consider right and wrong wa...
A second conclusion relates to the choices researchers have made in directing their efforts to examine different issues relating to morality. Our classification of this body of research into distinct themes addressed and types of mechanisms examined has allowed us to quantify and characterize these choices. The comparison of studies carried out to ...
A third conclusion emerging from this review is that there is a disjoint between seminal theoretical approaches to human morality and empirical work that is carried out. Our identification of seminal publications revealed that the the-oretical perspectives that we have used to derive key char-acteristics of human morality are also the ones that are...
The increased interest of psychological researchers in issues relating to morality was prompted at least partly by societal developments during the past years. These have raised ques-tions from the general public and made available research funds to address issues relating to civic conduct, ethical lead-ership, and moral behavior in various profess...
During the past years, many researchers have examined questions relating to the psychology of morality. Our main conclusion from the studies reviewed here is that these have yielded insights that are unbalanced, neglect some key fea-tures of human morality specified in influential theoretical perspectives, and are not well integrated. The current c...
This research was made possible by a Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) SPINOZA grant and a National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) Fellowship grant awarded to the first author and an NWO RUBICON grant awarded to the sec-ond author. We thank Jamie Breukel, Nadia Buiter, Kai van Eekelen, Piet Groot, Miriam Hoffmann-Harnisch...
The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
The author(s) received no financial support for the research, author-ship, and/or publication of this article.
Supplemental material is available online with this article.
We review empirical research on (social) psychology of morality to identify which issues and relations are well documented by existing data and which areas of inquiry are in need of further empirical evidence. An electronic literature search yielded a total of 1,278 relevant research articles published from 1940 through 2017.
- Naomi Ellemers, Jojanneke van der Toorn, Jojanneke van der Toorn, Yavor Paunov, Thed van Leeuwen
- 2019
Apr 19, 2006 · Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches. Moral psychology investigates human functioning in moral contexts, and asks how these results may impact debate in ethical theory. This work is necessarily interdisciplinary, drawing on both the empirical resources of the human sciences and the conceptual resources of philosophical ethics.
- John Doris, Stephen Stich, Jonathan Phillips, Lachlan Walmsley
- 2006
Jun 1, 2021 · “People can experience moral disagreements not only with others, including close friends and family, but within themselves as well, in the case of moral dilemmas.” A major clue regarding what underlies moral judgments comes from Young’s discovery more than a decade ago that certain brain regions involved in “theory of mind” are recruited for people’s assessments of moral right and ...
- Palmer, Chris
Jan 18, 2019 · The division of tasks and responsibilities between the authors was as follows: N.E. designed the study; developed the coding scheme; coded and interpreted studies published from 2000 through 2017; supervised the further data collection, analyses, and preparation of tables and figures; and prepared text for the introduction, method, results, and discussion.
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