The psychology of morality: libertarian and communitarian moral orientations and a dissonance model of moral decision making

Title: The psychology of morality: libertarian and communitarian moral orientations and a dissonance model of moral decision making
Creator: Bore, Miles
Relation: http://www.vdm-publishing.com
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr Muller
Resource Type: book
Date: 2008
Description: The domain of moral behaviour has received much attention from researchers in a number of psychological fields such as the cognitive developmental, psychoanalytic, socioanalytic and social learning approaches. While valuable, these approaches have not fully described the psychology of morality and methodological difficulties appear to be built into popular measures of moral reasoning. In this book a number of approaches to the psychology of morality, including evolutionary psychology, are reviewed and evidence for a Libertarian-Communitarian dimension of moral orientation is described. A model incorporating this conceptualisation of moral orientation together with cognitive dissonance as the mechanism for moral decision making is outlined. Subsequent chapters describe the development of a measure of moral orientation and findings from several studies involving some 8,500 participants are presented.
Subject: decision making; ethics; morality; psychology
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43814
Identifier: uon:5738
Identifier: ISBN:9783639091533
Language: eng

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