This cutting-edge handbook examines moral psychology and behavior, uncovering layers of human morality through a comprehensive overview of topics and approaches.
Featuring an array of expert international contributors, the book addresses five key themes: moral reasoning, moral judgments, moral emotions, moral behavior and moral self-views. Each section includes empirical chapters that address these themes at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup or intergroup level. Each section starts with a reflective chapter from a leading scholar in this field of study who shares their personal vision on key issues and future developments. Drawing on emerging research and featuring real-world examples, the book offers a deeper understanding of the social psychological factors that shape our moral behavior and how this plays out in our daily lives.
The Routledge International Handbook of the Psychology of Morality will be essential reading for academics and students in social psychology, the psychology of morality, business ethics and related areas. It will also be a compelling resource for legal and HR professionals, policy makers and anyone interested in understanding the complex and multi-faceted nature of human morality.
1 Introduction: What is right and what is wrong relates to who you are and where you belong: Unpacking the psychology of morality. Part 1: A vision on morality. 2 Forward: The Century of Moral Psychology. Part 2: Moral Reasoning. Part 2a: A vision on moral reasoning. 3 Moral reasoning: My personal journey. Part 2b: Empirical review chapters on moral reasoning. 4 The intrapersonal level: Intrapersonal Moral Reasoning. 5 The interpersonal level: Impartial Beneficence: The Forgotten Core of Utilitarian Psychology. 6 The intragroup level: How social identity tunes moral cognition. 7 The intergroup level: Human = Moral: The Boundary Conditions for Moral Reasoning Engagement in Intergroup Contexts. Part 3: Moral Judgments. Part 3a: A vision on moral judgements. 8 Moral judgment: What makes it unique? Part 3b: Empirical review chapters on moral judgements. 9 The intrapersonal level: How positions of power shape judgments of others’ moral character: A social context perspective. 10 The interpersonal level: Interpersonal Consequences of Moral Judgments about Others. 11 The intragroup level: Moral Character in Group Perception. 12 The intergroup level: Social Neuroscience of Intergroup Decision-Making. Part 4: Moral Emotions. Part 4a: A vision on moral emotions. 13 A vision (and definition) of moral emotions. Part 4b: Empirical review chapters on moral emotions. 14 The intrapersonal level: Beyond Contamination and Disgust: The Role of Moral Emotion in Threat Monitoring and Moral Judgment. 15 The interpersonal level: What is shame? Shame as a relational network of emotion-experience. 16 The intragroup level: Moral emotions, empathy, and acceptance of others as ingroup members: A social neuroscience perspective. 17 The intergroup level: Moral emotions in intergroup relations: The motivations and consequences of advantaged group members’ aims to challenge the intergroup inequality. Part 5: Moral Behavior. Part 5a: A vision on moral behavior. 18 Behavioural Ethics: A Retrospective Reflection and Prospective Prescription. Part 5b: Empirical review chapters on moral behavior. 19 The intrapersonal level: From feelings to moral actions. A working memory model of emotional influences on people’s own moral behaviours. 20 The interpersonal level: Affirming transgressors’ morality as a strategy to promote apologies and interpersonal reconciliation: The promise and potential pitfalls. 21 The intragroup level: When and why reputational concerns influence immoral behaviour. 22 The intergroup level: The strategic use of morality in intergroup relations. Part 6: Moral Self-Views. Part 6a: A vision on moral self-views. 23 On the vertical: How the Moral self pursues its highest good. Part 6b: Empirical review chapters on moral self-views. 24 The intrapersonal level: The Moral Self. 25 The interpersonal level: Moral self-views, at the interpersonal level of analysis. 26 The intragroup level: Morally motivated intragroup deviance and dissent. 27 The intergroup level: Moral self-views: The intergroup level. Part 7: A concluding vision. 28 How morality shapes research – A conversation with the editors
Naomi Ellemers is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, Netherlands, elected member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Her research focuses on the way people live together in groups and work together in organizations. She examines how individual behaviors and moral choices are influenced by social concerns and group norms. Stefano Pagliaro is Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where he is Head of the GPM-Lab (Group Processes and Morality Lab). His main research interests relate to social perception and group dynamics. In particular, he is interested in understanding the way in which moral concerns regulate interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup dynamics. Félice van Nunspeet is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She is research leader of the program on Integrity & Ethics in the Organizational Behaviour Research Group, at the department of Psychology. Her research is focused on how social contexts affect people’s moral perceptions and motivations. She takes a psychophysiological and neuroscientific research approach to examine people’s implicit behavior and the underlying cognitive and affective processes.
