Beginning his book with Rodney King's sad appeal,“can we all get along?” Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia, pulls together his and his colleagues' …
People are selfish, yet morally motivated. Morality is universal, yet culturally variable. Such apparent contradictions are dissolving as research from many disciplines converges on a …
Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species. In What's Wrong with Morality?, C. Daniel …
Cynicism often seems a smarter choice than idealism. There are reasons for this. Politicians have disappointed us time and again; trusted institutions have proven to be self-serving and …
RA Shweder, J Haidt - Psychological science, 1993 - journals.sagepub.com
Gewirtz, 1991) provides us with an excuse to assess the state of the art. It also provides us with a chance to engage in some augury (and perhaps influence the future) by making an …
Academic Abstract The idea of “purity” transformed moral psychology. Here, we provide the first systematic review of this concept. Although often discussed as one construct, we reveal …
Moral psychology is the systematic inquiry into how morality works, when it does work, and breaks down when it doesn't work. In this comprehensive new textbook, Mark Alfano outlines …
Our inability to feel what others feel makes it difficult to understand how they think. Because moral intuitions organize political attitudes, moral empathy gaps can exacerbate political …
“Surprising and remarkable… Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and …