The Role of Moral Commitments in Moral Judgment

The Role of Moral Commitments in Moral Judgment

Traditional approaches to moral psychology assumed that moral judgments resulted from the application of explicit commitments, such as those embodied in consequentialist or deontological philosophies. In contrast, recent work suggests that moral judgments often result from unconscious or emotional processes, with explicit commitments generated post hoc. This paper explores the intermediate posi...

Kant on the Rationality of Moral Judgment

group-BaseD Biases in moral juDgmenT: The role oF shiFTing moral sTanDarDs

360 © 2014 Guilford Publications, Inc. This research was supported by a Psi Chi Summer Research Grant, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Regina Casper Stanford Graduate Fellowship awarded to the first author. Address correspondence regarding this research to Takuya Sawaoka, Stanford University, Department of Psychology, 450 Serra Mall, Jordan Hall, Stanford, CA 9...

The Role of Emotion Regulation in Moral Judgment

Moral judgment has typically been characterized as a conflict between emotion and reason. In recent years, a central concern has been determining which process is the chief contributor to moral behavior. While classic moral theorists claimed that moral evaluations stem from consciously controlled cognitive processes, recent research indicates that affective processes may be driving moral behavi...

Explorations in the Role of Emotion in Moral Judgment

Recent theorizations on the cognitive process of moral judgment have focused on the role of intuitions and emotions, marking a departure from previous emphasis on conscious, step-by-step reasoning. My study investigated how being in a disgusted mood state affects moral judgment. Participants were induced to enter a disgusted mood state through listening to disgusting sounds and reading disgusti...