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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: In this article, the theory of an ethic of care is described and contrasted with Kohlberg's morality of justice, and the empirical support for Gilligan's claim that men and women differ in their moral orientations is examined.
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TL;DR: AITCHISON, J., J. F. HABBEMA, and J. W. KAY 1977.
Abstract: AITCHISON, J., J. D. F. HABBEMA, and J. W. KAY. 1977. A critical comparison of two methods of statistical discrimination. Applied Statistics 26: 15-25. CORRUCCINI, R. S. 1975. Multivariate analysis in biological anthropology: Some considerations. Journal of Human Evolution 4:1-19. FISHER, R. A. 1936. The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Annals of Eugenics 7:179-88. GEISSER, S. 1977. \"Discrimination, allocatory and separatory, linear aspects,\" in Classification and clustering. Edited by J. van Ryzin, pp. 301-30. New York: Academic Press. HOWELLS, W. W. 1973. Cranial variation in man. Papers of the Peabody Museum 67. THORNE, A. G., and S. R. WILSON. 1977. Pleistocene and recent Australians: A multivariate comparison. Journal of Human Evolution 6:393-402. WELCH, B. L. 1939. Note on discriminant functions. Biometrika 31: 218-20.
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TL;DR: It is suggested that the diversity of moral judgment is underlain by the moral dyad, a psychological template of two perceived minds—a moral agent and a moral patient, which acts as a cognitive working model or template through which all morality is understood.
Abstract: The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. —Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn, the famous Romantic composer, sought to take the unique experiences of each human life—distinctive sorrows an...
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TL;DR: The authors argued that the very same effect that has been observed for intentionally also arises for deciding, in favor of, opposed to, and advocating, and argued that moral judgments exert a pervasive influence on folk psychology.
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A series of recent studies have shown that people's moral judgments can affect their intuitions as to whether or not a behavior was performed intentionally. Prior attempts to explain this effect can be divided into two broad families. Some researchers suggest that the effect is due to some peculiar feature of the concept of intentional action in particular, while others suggest that the effect is a reflection of a more general tendency whereby moral judgments exert a pervasive influence on folk psychology. The present paper argues in favor of the latter hypothesis by showing that the very same effect that has been observed for intentionally also arises for deciding, in favor of, opposed to, and advocating.
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TL;DR: Findings suggest that gender-related determinants of moral behavior may partly explain gender differences in real-life involving power management, economic decision-making, leadership and possibly also aggressive and criminal behaviors.
Abstract: The moral sense is among the most complex aspects of the human mind. Despite substantial evidence confirming gender-related neurobiological and behavioral differences, and psychological research suggesting gender specificities in moral development, whether these differences arise from cultural effects or are innate remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the role of gender, education (general education and health education) and religious belief (Catholic and non-Catholic) on moral choices by testing 50 men and 50 women with a moral judgment task. Whereas we found no differences between the two genders in utilitarian responses to non-moral dilemmas and to impersonal moral dilemmas, men gave significantly more utilitarian answers to personal moral (PM) dilemmas (i.e., those courses of action whose endorsement involves highly emotional decisions). Cultural factors such as education and religion had no effect on performance in the moral judgment task. These findings suggest that the cognitive-emotional processes involved in evaluating PM dilemmas differ in men and in women, possibly reflecting differences in the underlying neural mechanisms. Gender-related determinants of moral behavior may partly explain gender differences in real-life involving power management, economic decision-making, leadership and possibly also aggressive and criminal behaviors.
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