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On the Social Dimensions of Moral Psychology
Author(s) -
GREENWOOD JOHN D
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2011.00472.x
Subject(s) - social intuitionism , social cognitive theory of morality , moral psychology , moral disengagement , sketch , psychology , moral reasoning , epistemology , social cognition , theoretical psychology , moral development , social psychology , cross cultural psychology , empirical psychology , intuitionism , cognition , cognitive psychology , philosophy , algorithm , neuroscience , computer science
Contemporary moral psychology has been enormously enriched by recent theoretical developments and empirical findings in evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and social psychology and psychopathology. Yet despite the fact that some theorists have developed specifically “social heuristic” (Gigerenzer, 2008) and “social intuitionist” (Haidt, 2007) theories of moral judgment and behavior, and despite regular appeals to the findings of experimental social psychology, contemporary moral psychology has largely neglected the social dimensions of moral judgment and behavior. I provide a brief sketch of these dimensions, and consider the implications for contemporary theory and research in moral psychology.