Moral psychology – how do you know that something is right or not and how it impacts us? 2404-OG-PMSWCP

1 What is a moral judgment? How is it different from other evaluations we make?
2. Is there one morality? Moral monism vs. moral pluralism.
3. How we make moral judgments: cognitive processes vs. emotions. Rationalist model vs. socio-intuitionist model.
4. Moral emotions and their influence on moral judgment. Do people change their moral judgments?
5. The roots of our morality: evolutionary determinants vs. socialization and upbringing processes. Do animals have morality? And if so, are they the same as humans?
6. The function of morality.
7) Whose harm is greater? Where does the empathic gap come from when we react to the suffering of people unknown to us?
8. The role of empathy in pro-social behavior? Is it necessary to feel empathy to help?
9. The rule of care vs. the rule of justice.
10. Morality as loyalty to the group.
11. The puzzle of puritanical morality.
12. The obvious and non-obvious sources of our moral hypocrisy.
13. Moral thinking, and moral behavior. To what extent do moral people act morally? Individual and situational determinants of moral behavior.
14. Morality, political orientation, and social beliefs - the essence of culture wars. Different patterns of moral systems in social conservatives, liberals, and libertarians.

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Total student workload

Hours implemented with the participation of teachers ( hours): - participation in lectures 30 hrs. - consultations with the academic teacher 10 hrs. Time devoted to individual work of the student ( hours): - preparation for the exam 20 hrs. - reading literature 20 hrs. Total: 80h (3 ECTS)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

1 The student understands the psychological process of moral judgment. 2. The student knows and understands the evolutionary and cultural foundations of psychological mechanisms of moral judgment. 3. The student knows the individual and situational determinants of human moral behavior. 4. The student understands how differences in moral intuitions translate into differences in ideology and political orientation.

Learning outcomes - skills

1 The student is able to apply knowledge of the course of the psychological process of moral judgment to the analysis and understanding of real moral decisions of people. 2. The student is able to relate specific moral evaluations and behaviors to a given moral rule (intuition). 3. The student is able to show and explain the role of differences in individual moral systems in current social phenomena, e.g. political elections or "culture wars".azać i wyjaśnić rolę różnic w zakresie indywidualnych systemów moralnych w aktualnych zjawiskach społecznych np. wyborach politycznych czy „wojnach kulturowych”.

Learning outcomes - social competencies

1 The student manifests greater openness and understanding of the moral systems of others, based on rules (intuitions) different from his own. 2 The student has a readiness to discuss the determinants and social utility of different moral rules (intuitions).

Teaching methods

Providing didactic methods: - problem lecture, - informative (conventional) lecture, - conversational lecture. Exploratory didactic methods: - case study - discussion

Expository teaching methods

- informative (conventional) lecture
- participatory lecture
- problem-based lecture

Exploratory teaching methods

- case study

Prerequisites

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Course coordinators

Tomasz Jarmakowski-Kostrzanowski

Assessment criteria

Test exam - a minimum score of 60% is required to pass.

Bibliography

Basic literature (for all)
1. Bloom, P., (2015) To tylko dzieci. Narodziny dobra i zła. Sopot: Smak słowa.
2. Haidt, J. (2014). Prawy umysł. Sopot: Smak Słowa
3. de Waal, F. (2013). Małpy i filozofowie. Skąd pochodzi moralność? Kraków: Copernicus Center Press.

Additional literature (for those interested in a particular topic)
1. Bersoff, D. (1999). Why Good People Sometimes Do Bad Things: Motivated Reasoning and Unethical Behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25,28–39.
2. Curry, O. S., Jones Chesters, M., & Van Lissa, C. J. (2019). Mapping morality with a compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality-as-cooperation’ with a new questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 106–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2018.10.008
3. Feinberg, M., Willer, R., Antonenko, O., John, O. P. (2012). Liberating Reason From the Passions: Overriding Intuitionist Moral Judgments Through Emotion Reappraisal. Psychological Science, 23(7), 788–795. http://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611434747
4. Graham, J., Haidt, J., Koleva, S., Motyl, M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S. P., Ditto, P. H. (2013). Moral Foundations Theory. W: Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 47, pp. 55–130). Elsevier.
5. Graham, J., Haidt, J., Nosek, B. A. (2009). Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(5), 1029–1046. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0015141
6. Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., Ditto, P. H. (2011). Mapping the moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(2), 366–385. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0021847
7. Greene, J. D. (2001). An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment. Science, 293(5537), 2105–2108. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1062872
8. Greene, J.D. (2014). The cognitive neuroscience of moral judgment and decision-making. The Cognitive Neurosciences V MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
9. Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108(4), 814–834. http://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.108.4.814
10. Haidt, J., S. Koller, Dias. M. (1993). Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog?” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 613–28.
11. Haidt, J., Graham, J. (2009). Planet of the Durkheimians, Where Community, Authority, and Sacredness are Foundations of Morality. In J. T. Jost, A. C. Kay, H. Thorisdottir, Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification (371–401). Oxford University Press.
12. Hofmann, W., Wisneski, D. C., Brandt, M. J., & Skitka, L. J. (2014). Morality in everyday life. Science, 345(6202), 1340–1343. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251560
13. Iyer, R., Koleva, S., Graham, J., Ditto, P., & Haidt, J. (2012). Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians. PLoS ONE, 7(8), e42366. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042366
14. Schnall, S., Haidt, J., Clore, G. L., Jordan, A. H. (2008). Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(8), 1096–1109. http://doi.org/10.1177/0146167208317771
15. Van Leeuwen, F., & Park, J. H. (2009). Perceptions of social dangers, moral foundations, and political orientation. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(3), 169–173. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.02.017

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