DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Internalization, Taste, Kin Selection
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Internalization: captures the chronic accessibility of a person"s moral self-schema. Symbolization: captures the importance a person places on exhibiting a public moral self as a way of affirming one"s morality. Difference in prescriptive and proscriptive self-regulation: prescriptive: committing good deeds, proscriptive: refraining from bad deeds. Aim of the study: to find out whether a moral outcome requires prescriptive versus proscriptive self-regulation and which facet of moral identity is a more reliable predictor of moral outcomes. Results: western and chinese participants use the word immoral quite differently, chinese were more likely to describe uncivilized behaviors as immoral compared with harmful behaviors, westerners did the opposite. Friends or foes: is empathy necessary for moral behavior: the relationship between morality and empathy is not as straightforward as apparent. 4: empathy can interfere with moral decision making but also provides the emotional fire and push.
