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On the relevance of morality in social psychology: An introduction to a virtual special issue
Author(s) -
Pagliaro Stefano
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.1840
Subject(s) - morality , psychology , deviance (statistics) , empathy , social psychology , inference , moral development , relevance (law) , epistemology , law , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , political science
Recently, social psychology has become central in the study of morality. This turn to morality as a topic builds on social psychologists' long‐standing interest in issues closely related to morality, such as cooperation, empathy, fairness, social norms and deviance. The present paper introduces a (virtual) special issue on morality by highlighting some of the 41 articles on “moral” or “morality” that have appeared in the European Journal of Social Psychology from 1973 to the present. The nineteen highlighted papers are organized into the main topics covered in research on morality published in EJSP: Emotion, Impression Formation and Trait Inference, Norms and Deviance, Stereotypes, and Reasoning and Judgment. A description of the historical trends that characterized research on morality in EJSP is also provided. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.