SOP-3004 Study Guide - Protection Mechanism, Egalitarianism, Mouthwash
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What is morality: a psychological state that deems acts as immoral and wrong. Rather than disagreeable, unfashionable, or imprudent we tend to think that our morals should be universal: also motivates punishment toward the immoral individual. Health vegetarians (less likely to push values on you) vs. moral vegetarians (see meat eating as murder, more pushy: morality is often aligned with one"s lifestyle. We get much better outcomes when we cooperate rather than working on our own. We actually have parts of our brain that activate in regards to morality. Elephant and the rider haidt: argument people don"t use moral reasoning, but moral rationalization. They start with the answer that comes from the unconscious, and then work backwards to come up with a plausible justification. Emotions are stronger than and can override our thought processes. Immorality leaves a bad taste in one"s mouth nasty taste pictures of gross stuff unfair treatment the disgust face keeps you away from gross thing.
