A reanalysis of the personal/impersonal distinction in moral psychology research

McGuire, Jonathan; Langdon, Robyn; Coltheart, Max; Mackenzie, Catriona

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.01.002

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“…While this is a legitimate way to approach one's data, it obscures the fact that the researchers didn't detect a difference in the vast majority of individual vignettes and that some factor specific to some cases could be driving the overall effect observed. (A similar worry arises for Greene's imaging studies: see McGuire et al [2009].) These points are lost when the literature focuses on these means of the means.…”

Section: Hypnotically-induced Disgustmentioning

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Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment?

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2013

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Recent empirical research seems to show that emotions play a substantial role in moral judgment. Perhaps the most important line of support for this claim focuses on disgust. A number of philosophers and scientists argue that there is adequate evidence showing that disgust significantly influences various moral judgments. And this has been used to support or undermine a range of philosophical theories, such as sentimentalism and deontology. I argue that the existing evidence does not support such arguments. At best it suggests something rather different: that moral judgment can have a minor emotive function, in addition to a substantially descriptive one.

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Section: Hypnotically-induced Disgustmentioning

confidence: 95%

Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment?

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2013

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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“…For example, McGuire et al (2009) claimed that only a small number of dilemmas used by Greene et al (2001Greene et al ( , 2004 drive the findings that PD and ID are correlated with dissociable neural systems. Michail (2007) argued that the distinction between PD and ID is overly crude and unable to explain the variability that is found in the responses to the trolley problems.…”

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“…For Greene and collaborators (2001), the main distinction between the two situations is that the simple thought of pushing someone to certain death with one's hands in an -close-up and personal‖ manner is likely to be more emotionally salient than the -impersonal‖ thought of hitting a switch, even if both responses have similar consequences. It is noteworthy that, despite that the explanatory validity of this distinction has been seriously questioned (Kahane et al, 2011;McGuire, Langdon, Coltheart & Mackenzie, 2009), it appears that there is something about the actions in the footbridge and the switch dilemma that elicits different behaviors.…”

Section: Moral Judgment Understood As An Evaluation Driven By Innate mentioning

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The new science of moral cognition: the state of the art. [La nueva ciencia de la cognición moral: estado de la cuestión]

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Rosselló

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Título: La nueva ciencia de la cognición moral: estado de la cuestión. Resumen: La necesidad de realizar aproximaciones multidisciplinares al estudio de la naturaleza humana es ampliamente aceptada. Esta perspectiva se ha manifestado especialmente prolífica en el campo de la psicología moral. A pesar que el estudio de temas morales ha sido materia recurrente de las humanidades y de las ciencias sociales, solo la posterior integración de diferentes disciplinas científicas en la ciencia de la -psicología moral‖ parece haber sido determinante para el desarrollo de este campo de estudio. Así, en los últimos diez años, diversos estudios procedentes de las ciencias cognitivas, la filosofía experimental, la primatología, la psicología clínica y del desarrollo, las ciencias económicas o la antropología han dado lugar a lo que parece ser una -nueva era‖ en el estudio de la moralidad. En este artículo, revisamos los hallazgos más importantes que constituyen el -estado del arte‖ de la psicología moral, con el objetivo de facilitar una mejor comprensión acerca del funcionamiento de la mente moral. Palabras clave: psicología moral; juicio moral; cognición social. Abstract:The need for multidisciplinary approaches to the scientific study of human nature is a widely supported academic claim. This assumption has proved to be especially successful in the field of moral psychology. Although studies of moral topics have been ubiquitous in both humanities and social sciences, it is not until the integration of different scientific disciplines in the convergent science of moral psychology that the study of morality seems to start its flourishing age. Thus, in the last ten years, a growing body of research from cognitive sciences, experimental philosophy, primatology, clinical and developmental psychology, economy and anthropology have made possible a -new era‖ on the study of morality. In this paper, we review the most striking findings that constitute the -state of the art‖ of moral psychology, with the aim to facilitate a better understanding of how the mind functions in the moral domain.

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A reanalysis of the personal/impersonal distinction in moral psychology research

Cited by 119 publications

References 24 publications

Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment?

Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment?

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The new science of moral cognition: the state of the art. [La nueva ciencia de la cognición moral: estado de la cuestión]

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