The college years are a time of significant growth and change for students as they confront new ideas and experiences that may challenge what they already know and believe. Faculty members who understand these changes can design courses and activities that meet students’ needs and support their continued development. The links below present theories, research, and information on students’ cogni...

Functional theories of attitudes address why people hold attitudes. The current study had two main goals: to extend the study of attitude functions, and to relate these functions to moral development. One hundred seventy-four participants filled out a revision of Herek's (1987) Attitude Functions Inventory (AFI) and a short form of Rest's (1979) Defining Issues Test (DIT). Factor analysis on th...

The college years are a time of significant growth and change for students as they confront new ideas and experiences that may challenge what they already know and believe. Faculty members who understand these changes can design courses and activities that meet students’ needs and support their continued development. The links below present theories, research, and information on students’ cogni...

We review a broad range of work, primarily in cognitive and social psychology, that provides insight into the processes of moral judgment. In particular, we consider research on pragmatic reasoning about regulations and on coherence in decision making, both areas in which psychological theories have been guided by work in legal philosophy. Armed with these essential prerequisites, we sketch a p...

The college years are a time of significant growth and change for students as they confront new ideas and experiences that may challenge what they already know and believe. Faculty members who understand these changes can design courses and activities that meet students’ needs and support their continued development. The links below present theories, research, and information on students’ cogni...

Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) posits that people moralize at least six distinct kinds of virtues. These virtues are divided into “individualizing” and “binding” virtues. Despite widespread enthusiasm for MFT, it is unknown how plausible it is as a model of people’s conceptualizations of the moral domain. In this research, we take a bottom-up approach to characterizing people’s conceptualizatio...

We propose Knobe’s explanation of his cases encounters a dilemma: Either his explanation works and, counterintuitively, morality is not at the heart of these effects; or morality is at the heart of the effects and Knobe’s explanation does not succeed. This dilemma is then used to temper the use of the Knobe paradigm for discovering moral norms. Knobe presents two kinds of theories that compete ...

Followership is a developing paradigm in organizational behavior which focusesmainly on followers. The goal of this study is to explore follower’s implicitfollowership theories (IFTs) which entail an analysis of follower’s views andperception about followership. For this purpose, based on a phenomenologicalapproach, semi-structured interviews with employees of large public and privateorganizati...

The college years are a time of significant growth and change for students as they confront new ideas and experiences that may challenge what they already know and believe. Faculty members who understand these changes can design courses and activities that meet students’ needs and support their continued development. The links below present theories, research, and information on students’ cogni...

This paper examines the influences of Aristotelian moral economic thought on Marx’s labor theory. This paper looks at certain moral ethical frameworks attributed to Aristotle and later used by Marx in developing his ideas on communism. The similarities between Marx’s labor theory and Aristotle’s ethical theories, including those on human flourishing (eudaimonia), justice and exchange, will be e...