This volume highlights the complex relations between empathy, individualizing and groupish moral intuitions, (anticipated) moral emotions, and moral judgment. It is rooted in the notion that human moral systems were not immune to evolutionary processes and thus shaped by biological and cultural evolutionary forces (e.g. natural selection, genetic drift, mutation, sexual selection, cultural mutation, ecological selection pressures, etc.). This edition proposes a conceptual model of both distal and proximal variables to integrate insights from Moral Foundations Theory with theorizing on commitment strategies by linking empathy and moral intuitions to moral emotions (guilt, anger, disgust), and moral judgment in the context of distinct moral violations. The proposed model is tested using data from a convenience sample of young adults in Belgium, who responded to written hypothetical scenarios in a large-scale online survey. This volume is ideal for moral theory researchers in criminology, psychology, and related disciplines
Author(s): Ann de Buck, Lieven J. R. Pauwels
Series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 83
City: Cham
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction and Aim of the Study
Introduction
Aim of the Present Study
References
Chapter 2: An Evolutionary-Inspired Integrated Model: From Empathy to Moral Judgment
Introduction
Moral Judgments
An Evolutionary-Inspired Perspective
Four Distinct Moral Violations
Theft by Taking
Breaking a Fairness Rule (Breaking a Promise)
Punishing a Free Rider
Consensual Adult Sibling Incest
Distal and Proximal Variables
Distal Variables
Empathy
Empathy and Moral Dimensions
Moral Intuitions
Moral Foundations Theory
Six Moral Foundations
Proximal Variables
Moral Emotions
Classification of Moral Emotions
Moral Guilt
Moral Anger
Disgust
Integrated Model of Moral Antecedents to Moral Judgment
The Relationships Between Empathy and Moral Intuitions
The Relationships Between Moral Intuitions, Moral Emotion, and Moral Judgment
References
Chapter 3: Data and Methodology
Participants
Written Scenarios
Imagine the Following
Diagrams of the Scenarios
Judgment of the “Theft by Taking” Scenario (Fig. 3.1)
Judgment of the “Breaking a Promise” Scenario (Fig. 3.2)
Judgment of the “Punishment of a Free Rider” Scenario (Fig. 3.3)
Judgment of the “Consensual Adult Sibling Incest” Scenario (Fig. 3.4)
Measures of the Key Concepts
Distal Variables
Empathic Concern and Empathic Perspective-Taking
Moral Intuitions: Individualizing and Groupish Moral Intuitions
Proximal Variables
Moral Emotions (Anticipated Guilt-Anger-Disgust)
Endogenous Variables
Moral Judgment
Analytic Strategy
Measurement Part of the Model
Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Structural Part of the Model
References
Chapter 4: Results
Structural Part of the Model
Scenario 1: Theft by Taking (Fig. 4.2)
Scenario 2: Breaking a Promise (Breaking a Fairness Rule) (Fig. 4.3)
Scenario 3: Punishing a Free Rider (Fig. 4.4)
Scenario 4: Consensual Adult Sibling Incest (Fig. 4.5)
Summary of the Major Findings
Chapter 5: Discussion and Future Research
Introduction
Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions
Conclusion
References
Appendices
Index
