background and aim: moral psychology studies investigate cognitive and emotional systems involved in moral judgments. this research also examines the effect of emotion manipulation on reaction times to moral dilemmas. method and materials: this was a causal relational study executed on eighty five randomly selected 18-25 year old students from shahid beheshti university. to investigate moral ju...

i try to show that richard rorty, although is not a moral philosopher like kant, nerveless, has moral philosophy that must be taken seriously. rorty was not engaged with moral philosophy in the systematic manner common among leading modern and contemporary moral philosophers. this paper has two parts: first part, in brief, is concerned with principles of his philosophy such as anti-essentialism...

People's desires to see themselves as moral actors can contribute to their striving for and achievement of a sense of self-completeness. The authors use self-completion theory to predict (and show) that recalling one's own (im)moral behavior leads to compensatory rather than consistent moral action as a way of completing the moral self. In three studies, people who recalled their immoral behavi...

The main goal of this volume is to present a cultural-developmental approach to moral psychology. The volume addresses the divergent and multiple ways that morality develops in diverse cultures, thus synthesizing developmental and cultural perspectives. It draws attention to the question of how to bridge the lenses of developmental and cultural psychology. The authors expand current theoretical...

Theory and research regarding moral motivation has focused for decades on the roles of moral reasoning and, to some extent, moral emotion. Recently, however, several models of morality have positioned identity as an additional important source of moral motivation. An individual has a moral identity to the extent that he or she has constructed his or her sense of self around moral concerns (e.g....

introduction nowadays, the vulnerability of human’s dwellings to the natural disasters has been steadily increasing as the results of the population centralisation. economic activities in vast and dense regions and disorganised and irregular conditions of dwellings in which the low-income dwellers of urban and rural areas live. the scale of damage caused by a crisis is not only related to its d...

Viewing a policy as harmful can lead to its moral condemnation. However, this harmfulness be constructed and negotiated different positions by building upon available, accessible, relevant discourses. This study examined how individuals harm in reasoning about contentious policy, Philippine President Duterte’s war on drugs, locally known tokhang. We ...