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REVIEW OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 99-111Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.11.2.99
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moral judgment; reason; emotion; dilemmas; self-regulation
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Recent approaches to moral judgment have typically pitted emotion against reason. In an effort to move beyond this debate, we propose that authors presenting diverging models are considering quite different prototypical situations: those focusing on the resolution of complex dilemmas conclude that morality involves sophisticated reasoning, whereas those studying reactions to shocking moral violations find that morality involves quick, affect-laden processes. We articulate these diverging dominant approaches and consider three directions for future research (moral temptation, moral self-image, and lay understandings of morality) that we propose have not received sufficient attention as a result of the focus on these two prototypical situations within moral psychology.
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