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Moral psychology is the study of human thought and behavior in ethical contexts. [1] Historically, the term "moral psychology" was used relatively narrowly to refer to the study of moral development. [2] [3] This field of study is interdisciplinary between the application of philosophy and psychology.
Articles relating to moral psychology, the study of various topics at the intersection of ethics, psychology, and philosophy of mind Subcategories. This category has ...
Moral affect is “emotion related to matters of right and wrong”. Such emotion includes shame, guilt, embarrassment, and pride; shame is correlated with the disapproval by one's peers, guilt is correlated with the disapproval of oneself, embarrassment is feeling disgraced while in the public eye, and pride is a feeling generally brought about by a positive opinion of oneself when admired by ...
Moral reasoning is the study of how people think about right and wrong and how they acquire and apply moral rules. It is a subdiscipline of moral psychology that overlaps with moral philosophy , and is the foundation of descriptive ethics .
In contrast to the dominant theories of morality in psychology at the time, the anthropologist Richard Shweder developed a set of theories emphasizing the cultural variability of moral judgments, but argued that different cultural forms of morality drew on "three distinct but coherent clusters of moral concerns", which he labeled as the ethics ...
Moral perception is a term used in ethics and moral psychology to denote the discernment of the morally salient qualities in particular situations. [1] Moral perceptions are argued to be necessary to moral reasoning (see practical reason ), the deliberation of what is the right thing to do.
Dual process theory within moral psychology is an influential theory of human moral judgement that posits that human beings possess two distinct cognitive subsystems that compete in moral reasoning processes: one fast, intuitive and emotionally-driven, the other slow, requiring conscious deliberation and a higher cognitive load.
Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (Cambridge, 2002) Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency (Oxford, 2015) Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality (Oxford, 2022) The Moral Psychology Handbook (ed.) (Oxford, 2010) The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (ed.) (Oxford, 2022)