Publication Cover
Psychological Inquiry
An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory
Volume 34, 2023 - Issue 2
171
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Commentaries

Do We Need a Definition of Morality? A Comment on the Distinctions between Definition and Theory and the Problem of Porn

ORCID Icon

References

  • Baron, J., Gürçay, B., Moore, A. B., & Starcke, K. (2012). Use of a Rasch model to predict response times to utilitarian moral dilemmas. Synthese, 189(S1), 107–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0121-z
  • Cushman, F. (2013). Action, outcome, and value a dual-system framework for morality. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17(3), 273–292. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868313495594
  • Crockett, M. J. (2013). Models of morality. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(8), 363–366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2013.06.005
  • Gilligan, C. (1993). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women’s development. Harvard University Press.
  • Greene, J. D., Sommerville, R. B., Nystrom, L. E., Darley, J. M., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment. Science, 293(5537), 2105–2108. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1062872
  • Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108(4), 814–834. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.108.4.814
  • Hofmann, W., Wisneski, D. C., Brandt, M. J., & Skitka, L. J. (2014). Morality in everyday life. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6202), 1340–1343. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251560
  • Hume, D. (1978/1888). A treatise of human nature. Dover Publications.
  • Kohlberg, L. (1976). Moral stages and moralization: The cognitive-development approach. Moral development and behavior: Theory research and social issues, 31–53.
  • Lewin, K. (1943). Psychology and the process of group living. The Journal of Social Psychology, 17(1), 113–131. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1943.9712269
  • McGuire, W. J. (2004). A Perspectivist Approach to Theory Construction. Personality and Social Psychology Review: An Official Journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc, 8(2), 173–182. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0802_11
  • Merriam-Webster. (2022). Definition. Retrieved April 23, 2023. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/definition
  • Milgram, S. (1974). The dilemma of obedience. The Phi Delta Kappan, 55(9), 603–606.
  • Nucci, L. P., & Turiel, E. (1978). Social interactions and the development of social concepts in preschool children. Child Development, 49(2), 400–407. https://doi.org/10.2307/1128704
  • Piaget, J. (1997). The moral judgement of the child. Simon and Schuster.
  • Rest, J. R., Narvaez, D., Thoma, S. J., & Bebeau, M. J. (1999). Postconventional moral thinking: A neo-Kohlbergian approach. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Rozin, P., Lowery, L., Imada, S., & Haidt, J. (1999). The moral/emotion (CAD) triad hypothesis: A mapping between the other-directed moral emotions, disgust, contempt, and anger, and Shweder’s three universal moral codes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76(4), 574–586. https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.76.4.574
  • Shweder, R. A., Much, N. C., Mahapatra, M., & Park, L. (1997). The “big three” of morality (autonomy, community, and divinity), and the “big three” explanations of suffering. In A. Brandt & P. Rozin (Eds.), Morality and health (pp. 119–169). Routledge.
  • Simpson, E. L. (1974). Moral development research. Human Development, 17(2), 81–106. https://doi.org/10.1159/000271335
  • Skitka, L. J., Hanson, B. E., Morgan, G. S., & Wisneski, D. C. (2021). The psychology of moral conviction. Annual Review of Psychology, 72(1), 347–366. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-063020-030612
  • Sullivan, E. V. (1977). A study of Kolhberg’s structural theory of moral development: A critique of liberal social science ideology. Human Development, 20(6), 352–376. https://doi.org/10.1159/000271568
  • Turiel, E. (1983). Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention. Cambridge University Press.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.