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Social cognitive theory of morality
About: Social cognitive theory of morality is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5842 publications have been published within this topic receiving 250337 citations.
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TL;DR: The authors consider a third possibility: a relative lack of truly moral motivation and emotion, which has been taken for moral motivation is often instead a subtle form of egoism, and suggest that the lack of moral motivation may be linked to a lack of true moral emotion.
Abstract: Why do moral people so often fail to act morally? Standard scientific answers point to poor moral judgment (based on deficient character development, reason, or intuition) or to situational pressure. I consider a third possibility: a relative lack of truly moral motivation and emotion. What has been taken for moral motivation is often instead a subtle form of egoism. Recent research provides considerable evidence for moral hypocrisy--motivation to appear moral while, if possible, avoid the cost of actually being moral--but very little evidence for moral integrity--motivation to actually be moral. The lack of truly moral motivation may, in turn, be linked to a lack of truly moral emotion, at least in response to violation of certain moral standards.
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TL;DR: Analysis of the rationales revealed that participants with typical development used significantly more abstract rules than participants with ASD, who provided more nonspecific condemnations of the behaviors.
Abstract: This study compared moral and social reasoning in individuals with and without autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Ten familiar schoolyard transgressions were shown to 18 participants with and 18 participants without ASD. They judged the appropriateness of the behavior and explained their judgments. Analysis of the rationales revealed that participants with typical development used significantly more abstract rules than participants with ASD, who provided more nonspecific condemnations of the behaviors. Both groups judged social conventional transgressions to be more context-bound than moral transgressions, with this distinction more pronounced in typically developing individuals, who also provided significantly more examples of situations in which the depicted behaviors would be acceptable. The educational implications of these findings for individuals with ASD are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between moral behaviour, level of moral development, and motivation was assessed in an experimental situation in which it was necessary to violate a moral principle in order to achieve moral development.
Abstract: In this study of the relationship between moral behaviour, level of moral development, and motivation, moral behaviour was assessed in an experimental situation in which it was necessary to violate...
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TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that moral reasoning is premised upon more comprehensive worldviews and it is suggested that moral behaviors in part serve to maintain these worldviews, and that a moral behavior is predicated on a worldview.
Abstract: In this article, it is argued that moral reasoning is premised upon more comprehensive worldviews, and it is suggested that moral behaviors in part serve to maintain these worldviews. A worldview is d
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