The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment.

By Jonathan Haidt. Psychology Review, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The role of construction, intuition, and justification in responding to ethical issues at work: The sensemaking-intuition model (2007, background): “Individuals routinely develop intuitions about social stimuli (especially at work [Burke & Miller, 1999]), and while moral reasoning might be used to override an individual’s initial intuitions, such “reasoning is rarely used to question one’s own attitudes or beliefs” (Haidt, 2001: 819).”
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “Nor do moral judgments appear to be Cognitive Neuroscience and the Structure of the Moral Mind 349 driven entirely by emotional responses (Haidt, 2001).”
Sweatshop Labor Is Wrong Unless the Shoes Are Cute: Cognition Can Both Hurt and Help Motivated Moral Reasoning (2013, neutral): “A dual-process model suggests that moral judgments are driven by both an intuitive process and a consciously-guided cognitive process that work to mediate moral decision making (Greene, Nystrom, Engell, Darley, & Cohen, 2004; Haidt, 2001; Pizarro & Bloom, 2003).”
WHY EMPLOYEES DO BAD THINGS: MORAL DISENGAGEMENT AND UNETHICAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (2012, background): “For example, much attention has been paid recently to less deliberative and more impulsive or intuitive models of ethical decision making (Haidt, 2001; Reynolds, Leavitt, & DeCelles, 2010).”
A Model for Ethical Decision Making in Business: Reasoning, Intuition, and Rational Moral Principles (2011, background): “One is automatic, subconscious, and intuitive ( Haidt 2001; Khatri and Ng 2000; Dane and Pratt 2007), labeled as pattern recognition by some (Klein 2001) or the (reflexive) X-System (Lieberman et al. 2002).”
Morality shifting in the context of intergroup violence (2012, background): “social intuitionist model (Haidt, 2001), conceptualize moral”
Correlates of youth sport attrition: a review and future directions. (2014, background): “First, behavior is often guidedby intuition rather than reason and thus people often do not know why they behave in certain ways (Haidt, 2001).”
Moral disengagement of hotel guest negative WOM: moral identity centrality, moral awareness, and anger. (2014, background): “Moreover, recent research suggests that emotions play a significant role (especially moderating role) on the regulatory function of moral self-concept (e.g., moral identity), as well as the process of moral cognition (e.g., Haidt, 2001; Huebner, Dwyer & Hauser, 2009; Greene & Haidt, 2002).”
Deciding Analytically or Trusting your Intuition? The Advantages and Disadvantages of Analytic and Intuitive Thought (2002, background): “And Haidt (2001) has analyzed moral judgments from both rational and “social intuitionist” perspectives.”
The Study of Bias in Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Affect Matters, Especially for Make-Happy Type of Biases In folk decision analysis, emotion appears antithetical to rationality (Haidt, 2001); thus, unbiased thinking necessitates the eradication of the influences of emotion.”
Consumer response to corporate irresponsible behavior: Moral emotions and virtues (2013, background): “Psychologists have shown that ethical and social transgressions engender negative emotional reactions in people and function to link violations of moral standards to moral behaviors (e.g., Haidt, 2001, 2007; Tangney, Stuewig and Mashek, 2007).”
The Psychology of Moral Conviction (2010, background): “The social intuitionist model of moral judgment (SIM) suggests that attitudes are likely to become moralized through flashes of moral intuition; a fast, automatic, affect laden process that is independent of conscious, deliberate reasoning (Haidt, 2001).”