The intelligence of the moral intuitions: comment on Haidt (2001).

Critiquing empirical moral psychology

Commonsense psychology seems to have it that most morally significant decisions arise through practical reasoning and moral delibaeration. No doubt, there are social psychological data that put pressure on reflective views of human agency. However, even on the assumption that non-rational and irrational processes are implicated in many morally significant decisions (cf., Doris, 2002, forthcomin...

Moral Psychology Must Not Be Based on Faith and Hope: Commentary on Narvaez (2010).

Narvaez (2010, this issue) calls for a moral psychology in which reasoning and intuitions are equal partners. But empirical research on the power of implicit processes and on the weakness of everyday reasoning indicates that the partnership is far from equal. The ancient rationalist faith that good reasoning can be taught and that it will lead to improved behavior is no longer justified. The so...

The Emotional Dog Gets Mistaken for a Possum

H. D. Saltzstein and T. Kasachkoff (2004) critique the social intuitionist model (J. Haidt, 2001), but the model they critique is a stripped-down version that should be called the “possum” model. They make 3 charges about the possum model that are not true about the social intuitionist model: that it includes no role for reasoning, that it reduces social influence to compliance, and that it doe...

Relationship between Perfectionism, Emotional Intelligence and Positive Thinking with Ethical Values in Students

Background: Moral virtues are important in the development of culture and respect for human rights in students. Identifying the components of moral promotion can be important, so the purpose of this study was the relationship between perfectionism, emotional intelligence and positive thinking with moral value in students. Method: The research method was descriptive and correlational. The stati...

19 The moral mind: How five sets of innate intuitions guide the development of many culture-specific virtues, and perhaps even modules