How does morality fit in?

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Yourmorals.org  What did you think of the scale?  Were your results as you expected?  What are the differences between equity and equality?  What factors other than values might affect how people respond?  What leads people to have these values?

Haidt, 2012  What is moral reasoning, according to Haidt?  What are examples of moral issues on which we have automatic responses?  How do we assess whether they are automatic?  Rider on an elephant metaphor—good one? What does it suggest?

Development of morality  What are the nativist vs. empiricist vs. rationalism explanations?  What are the implications of these approaches (for where morality comes from, how to change it, etc.)?  Piaget et-stages-of-cognitive-development. et-stages-of-cognitive-development.  Kohlberg berg-stages-of-moral-development.html berg-stages-of-moral-development.html

Carol Gilligan’s stages Gilligan's Stages of the Ethic of Care Approximate Age Range StageGoal not listedPreconventional Goal is individual survival Transition is from selfishness -- to -- responsibility to others not listedConventional Self sacrifice is goodness Transition is from goodness -- to -- truth that she is a person too maybe neverPostconventional Principle of nonviolence: do not hurt others or self

More research on moral development  What effects did these models have on how people think about morality and values?  What did Turiel add? Shweder?  What are sociocentric vs. individualistic approaches to morality?

Haidt, Koller, & Dias, 1993  What does data show in terms of how children and adults in various cultures think about morality?  What are moral vs. social convention violations?  What do Haidt’s data suggest about class and morality?  What implications would this have?  Why would these differences exist?

Haidt, J., Koller, S. H., & Dias, M. G. (1993). Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(4), doi: / © 1993 American Psychological Association

Haidt, J., Koller, S. H., & Dias, M. G. (1993). Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(4), doi: / © 1993 American Psychological Association

Haidt, J., Koller, S. H., & Dias, M. G. (1993). Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(4), doi: / © 1993 American Psychological Association

Haidt, J., Koller, S. H., & Dias, M. G. (1993). Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(4), doi: / © 1993 American Psychological Association

The worship of reason  What are the possible relationships between reason and emotion? Plato vs. Jefferson vs. Hume  Which view does Haidt support?  Roach juice and selling soul—why did only 30% agree?  Sibling sex and eating person—how do people respond to these types of moral issues?  What is Margolis’s distinction between “seeing that” and “seeing why”?  What are some political examples of how we use moral reasoning to try to explain to others why they should agree with us?

Changes in moral thinking  How do moral decisions get made and change in Haidt’s model?  How does his model suggest we should try to change opinions?  Why doesn’t reasoning with someone work?

Haidt’s evidence for automatic intuition then justification  1. Brains constantly evaluate.  2. Social and political judgments are especially like to be automatic.  3. Bodies guide judgments.  4. Psychopaths reason but don’t feel.  5. Babies feel but don’t reason.  6. Feelings are affected by outside influences.

Accountability  What is the idea of Tetlock’s intuitive politician?  When does accountability make us really think through the issues?  How does Leary’s “sociometer” idea fit in?  When, what, and how well do we rationalize?  How do we vote, according to Haidt? How would his approach explain poor people voting for conservative policies, for example?

Intuitions  What else do our intuitions do for us? What else is automatic and how does that serve us?  Are some people better at justifying than others? What about at persuading/seeing the other’s point of view?  Why do we want to be seen as moral?

Comparisons  Is Haidt’s approach consistent with other approaches we’ve talked about this semester?  Cognitive dissonance theory  System justification  TMT  What other concepts seem familiar?  What does Carnegie suggest? How does that fit with research?  How does Haidt view religion?