moral psychology
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Moral Moral PsychologPsychologyy
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Moral PsychologyMoral PsychologyMoral psychology is a field of
study in both philosophy and psychology.
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Study of MoralityStudy of Morality1994 Antonio Damasio's
Descartes' Error◦Study morality using fMRI◦Morality, and rationality itself, were
crucially dependent on the proper functioning of emotional circuits in the prefrontal cortex.
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Frans de Waal's Good Frans de Waal's Good NaturedNaturedshowed an equally broad
audience that the building blocks of human morality are found in other apes and are products of natural selection in the highly social primate lineage.
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These Books DemonstrateThese Books Demonstrateautomatic and unconscious
processes can and probably do cause the majority of our behaviors, even morally loaded actions (like rudeness or altruism) that we thought we were controlling consciously.
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Conclusions of ScholarsConclusions of Scholarspeople couldn't stop themselves
from making up post-hoc explanations for whatever it was they had just done for unconscious reasons.
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QuestionQuestionIf the building blocks of morality
were shaped by natural selection long before language arose, and if those evolved structures work largely by giving us feelings that shape our behavior automatically, then why should we be focusing on the verbal reasons that people give to explain their judgments in hypothetical moral dilemmas?
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Jonathon HaidtJonathon Haidttold people short stories in which
a person does something disgusting or disrespectful that was perfectly harmless (for example, a family cooks and eats its dog, after the dog was killed by a car).
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Hiadt (Con’t)Hiadt (Con’t)was trying to pit the emotion of
disgust against reasoning about harm and individual rights.
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ResultResultfound that disgust won in nearly
all groups I studied (in Brazil, India, and the United States), except for groups of politically liberal college students, particularly Americans, who overrode their disgust and said that people have a right to do whatever they want, as long as they don't hurt anyone else.
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ConclusionConclusionemotion played a bigger role
than the cognitive developmentalists had given it.
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Role of Emotion in Moral Role of Emotion in Moral JudgmentJudgmentold approaches to morality,
including Kohlberg's, would be swept away or merged into a new approach that focused on the emotive centers of the brain as biological adaptations.
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E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilsonthese emotive centers give us
moral intuitions, which the moral philosophers then justify while pretending that they are intuiting truths that are independent of the contingencies of our evolved minds.
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Four Principles of Moral Four Principles of Moral PsychologyPsychology1) Intuitive primacy but not
dictatorship. This is the idea, that the mind is driven by constant flashes of affect in response to everything we see and hear.
Studies of everyday reasoning show that we usually use reason to search for evidence to support our initial judgment,
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Four Principles (Con’t)Four Principles (Con’t)sometimes we can use controlled
processes such as reasoning to override our initial intuitions.
This happens rarely
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Four Principles (Con’t)Four Principles (Con’t)2) Moral thinking is for social doing. Your reasoning abilities are pressed
into service generating arguments to defend your side and attack the other. We are certainly able to reason dispassionately when we have no gut feeling about a case, and no stake in its outcome, but with moral disagreements that's rarely the case. As David Hume said long ago, reason is the servant of the passions.
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Four Principles (Con’t)Four Principles (Con’t)3) Morality binds and buildsmorality is a set of constraints that
binds people together into an emergent collective entity.
humans do form tight, cooperative groups that pursue collective ends and punish cheaters and slackers, and they do this most strongly when in conflict with other groups. Morality is what makes all of that possible.
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Four Principles (Con’t)Four Principles (Con’t)4) Morality is about more than
harm and fairness.Morality has other factors or
Traits that define what it is and how we perceive and act upon defining “OK from Not-OK”
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Other TraitsOther Traitsthree best candidates for being
additional psychological foundations of morality, beyond harm/care and fairness/justice.
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Other TraitsOther Traitsthese three we label as
ingroup/loyalty (which may have evolved from the long history of cross-group or sub-group competition, related to what Joe Henrich calls "coalitional psychology");.
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Other TraitsOther Traitsauthority/respect (which may have
evolved from the long history of primate hierarchy, modified by cultural limitations on power and bullying, as documented by Christopher Boehm), and
purity/sanctity, which may be a much more recent system, growing out of the uniquely human emotion of disgust, which seems to give people feelings that some ways of living and acting are higher, more noble, and less carnal than others
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Jonathon Haidt - MovieJonathon Haidt - MovieYouTube - Jonathan Haidt: The re
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