Nothing More than Feelings? The Role of Emotions in Moral Judgment

By David A Pizarro. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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The Effects of Proximity and Empathy on Ethical Decision-Making: An Exploratory Investigation (2009, background): “Numerous organizational ethics researchers have used Rest’s (1986) rational decision-making model as the basis for theory development and empirical examination (O’Fallon and Butterfield, 2005).”
Ethical leadership and employee knowledge sharing: Exploring dual-mediation paths (2017, background): “As explained above, knowledge acquisition requires individuals to devote a tremendous amount of time and e ﬀ ort (Szulanski, 1996, 2000).”
Empathy, perspective taking and personal values as predictors of moral schemas (2010, background): “…perspective taking (putting oneself in the other’s place and imagining how she or he feels) is distinct from empathy-related reactions because it lacks emotionality (e.g. Eisenberg & Morris, 2001) and thus it can enable individuals to bypass empathic arousal and bias (Hoffman, 2000; Pizarro, 2000).”
Coordinate to cooperate or compete: Abstract goals and joint intentions in social interaction (2016, background): “During internal alignment, learners adjust their weights over the moral principles to be consistent with feelings about other agents from sources (deliberative and emotional) such as: empathy (Hoffman, 2001; Pizarro, 2000), imagination and stories (Bloom, 2010), analogical reasoning (Campbell & Kuma”
Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications (2008, background): “Consequently, moral judgments are often not so much the product of reasoned consideration but are instead triggered, more or less automatically, by crude heuristics, such as the emotional experiences of disgust and empathy (Haidt, 2001; Pizarro, 2000).”
Trait psychopathy and utilitarian moral judgement: The mediating role of action aversion (2015, background): “Empathising with the victim can lead to personal distress in the observer, whichmotivates the observer not to carry out such actions and also to condemn such actions when carried out by others (Pizarro, 2000).”
Moral Emotions and Social Activism: The Case of Animal Rights (2009, background): “They took an online survey which included measures of sensitivity to visceral disgust, attitudes toward animal welfare, and frequency of meat eating.”
Just a Game? Unjustified Virtual Violence Produces Guilt in Empathetic Players (2010, background): “Like any affective state, it holds informative value for the person experiencing it (Clore, Schwarz, & Conway, 1994; Pizarro, 2000).”
The Politics of Emotion in Everyday Life: “Appropriate” Emotion and Claims on Identity (2005, background): “Emotion experience tells us we are human; believing that others honestly and authentically experience emotion persuades us of their humanity as well (Pizarro, 2000).”
The Scarecrow and the Tin Man: The Vicissitudes of Human Sympathy and Caring (2007, background): “” 6 Pizarro (2000), contrary to this position, argues that”
The relationship between empathy‐related constructs and care‐based moral development in young adulthood (2010, background): “Influenced by Kant’s conceptions that emotions were partial and irrational and therefore antagonistic to the reasoning process (Pizarro, 2000), Kohlberg emphasised cognition as the primary contributor to level of moral understanding (i.e. principles of justice).”