The ABC of moral development: an attachment approach to moral judgment

The ABC of moral development: an attachment approach to moral judgment

As with other cognitive faculties, the etiology of moral judgment and its connection to early development is complex. Because research is limited, the causative and contributory factors to the development of moral judgment in preverbal infants are unclear. However, evidence is emerging from studies within both infant research and moral psychology that may contribute to our understanding of the ...

1 RUNNING HEAD: Attachment and moral judgment The Moral Compass of Insecurity: Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Predict Moral Judgment

Three studies examined associations between relational adult attachment and moral judgment. Study 1 shows that attachment-related anxiety and avoidance are uniquely and differentially related with moral concerns. Relative to low insecurity, higher avoidance was associated with weaker moral concerns about harm and unfairness, whereas higher anxiety was associated with stronger moral concerns abo...

Moral Judgment An fMRI

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A person-centered approach to moral judgment.

Both normative theories of ethics in philosophy and contemporary models of moral judgment in psychology have focused almost exclusively on the permissibility of acts, in particular whether acts should be judged on the basis of their material outcomes (consequentialist ethics) or on the basis of rules, duties, and obligations (deontological ethics). However, a longstanding third perspective on m...

Kant on the Rationality of Moral Judgment