EPSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Prosocial Behavior, Corporal Punishment
12 Feb 2020
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Moral behavior is behavior consistent with rules set by authority figures. Violation of rules merits punishment regardless of intent. More flexible view of rules as self-chosen. Studied how people think about moral issues involving justice, fairness, and rights. Near death, a woman with cancer learns of a drug that may save her. The woman"s husband, heinz, approaches the druggist who created the drug, but the druggist refuses to sell the drug for anything less than ,000. After borrowing from everyone he knows, heinz has only scraped together. Heinz asks the druggist to let him have the drug for. ,000 and he will pay him the rest later. The druggist says that it is his right to make money from the drug he developed and refuses to sell it to heinz. Desperate for the drug, heinz breaks into the druggist"s store and steals the drug. Preconventional reasoning: behavior governed by self- interest.
