Moral psychology

Moral Psychology is the study of human thought and behavior in ethical contexts.[1] Historically, the term "moral psychology" was used relatively narrowly to refer to the study of moral development.[2][3] This field of study is interdisciplinary between the application of philosophy and psychology. Moral psychology eventually came to refer more broadly to various topics at the intersection of ethics, psychology, and philosophy of mind.[4][5][6] Some of the main topics of the field are moral judgment, moral reasoning, moral satisficing, moral sensitivity, moral responsibility, moral motivation, moral identity, moral action, moral development, moral diversity, moral character (especially as related to virtue ethics), altruism, psychological egoism, moral luck, moral forecasting, moral emotion, affective forecasting, and moral disagreement.[7][8]

Today, moral psychology is a thriving area of research spanning many disciplines,[9] with major bodies of research on the biological,[10][11] cognitive/computational[12][13][14] and cultural[15][16] basis of moral judgment and behavior, and a growing body of research on moral judgment in the context of artificial intelligence.[17][18]

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  9. ^ Doris & Stich (2008), §1.
  10. ^ Sevinc, Gunes; Spreng, R. Nathan; Soriano-Mas, Carles (4 February 2014). "Contextual and Perceptual Brain Processes Underlying Moral Cognition: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis of Moral Reasoning and Moral Emotions". PLOS ONE. 9 (2): e87427. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...987427S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087427. PMC 3913597. PMID 24503959.
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  12. ^ Kleiman-Weiner, Max; Saxe, Rebecca; Tenenbaum, Joshua B. (October 2017). "Learning a commonsense moral theory". Cognition. 167: 107–123. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.03.005. hdl:1721.1/118457. PMID 28351662. S2CID 3184506.
  13. ^ Cushman, Fiery (16 July 2013). "Action, Outcome, and Value". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 17 (3): 273–292. doi:10.1177/1088868313495594. PMID 23861355. S2CID 18501147.
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  16. ^ Purzycki, Benjamin Grant; Apicella, Coren; Atkinson, Quentin D.; Cohen, Emma; McNamara, Rita Anne; Willard, Aiyana K.; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Norenzayan, Ara; Henrich, Joseph (10 February 2016). "Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality" (PDF). Nature. 530 (7590): 327–330. Bibcode:2016Natur.530..327P. doi:10.1038/nature16980. PMID 26863190. S2CID 205247725.
  17. ^ Awad, Edmond; Dsouza, Sohan; Kim, Richard; Schulz, Jonathan; Henrich, Joseph; Shariff, Azim; Bonnefon, Jean-François; Rahwan, Iyad (24 October 2018). "The Moral Machine experiment". Nature. 563 (7729): 59–64. Bibcode:2018Natur.563...59A. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6. hdl:10871/39187. PMID 30356211. S2CID 53029241.
  18. ^ Bonnefon, J.-F.; Shariff, A.; Rahwan, I. (23 June 2016). "The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles". Science. 352 (6293): 1573–1576. arXiv:1510.03346. Bibcode:2016Sci...352.1573B. doi:10.1126/science.aaf2654. PMID 27339987. S2CID 35400794.