PSYCH 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Moral Reasoning, Reciprocal Altruism, Twin Study
21 Apr 2016
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Approaches to morality: moral reasoning, moral feelings. It would be bad for rest of family. At the root of our moral intuitions are moral emotions. Encapsulated and evolved systems: we may experience them without understanding their causes incest - emotionally based responses are based on evolution. A lot of people think incest is wrong, you shouldn"t eat meat, guys shouldn"t have long hair. Emotion based judgments in infancy: do infants automatically interpret actions as bad or good, over 75% of babies would rather play with the nice or good shape rather than the mean one. Moral action: possess social/moral intuition in infancy, children can reason. Empathy: emotional reaction to another"s emotional state or condition that is similar to that person"s state or condition. Early sensitivity to others: new born infants (onward) show distress in response to others distress, but . Selfish distress (they want attention too!: some evidence but hard to identify altruism in infants.
