--this is the published version of my dissertation. It examined a debate between eliott turiel and richard shweder, on whether morality really varied by culture.Cognitive learning process theory using harmless yet offensive stories (such as a family that eats its pet dog, after the dog was killed by a car), I found evidence that strongly supported shweder: morality did indeed vary by culture.Cognitive learning process theory unexpectedly, cultural differences across social classes within each country were larger than differences across nations (U.S. Vs. Brazil). This research showed me the importance of culture and of emotion for understanding moral judgment.Cognitive learning process theory if you would like to see my original dissertation, which gives more detail about methods and more tables of results, you can view it here.

--this was the undergraduate honors thesis of matthew hersh.Cognitive learning process theory it was my first venture into political psychology. We found that conservatives moralized sexual issues more thatn liberals, and that they were more likely to become "morally dumbfounded" while trying to explain themselves.Cognitive learning process theory but the differences were largest on homosexuality -- an issue in the culture war -- and they were much smaller for issues of consensual incest.Cognitive learning process theory

--this is the most important article I've ever written. It was my effort to bring together the newest developments in many fields in the 1990s, and link them up to older ideas (from david hume and robert zajonc) about the primacy of affect.Cognitive learning process theory I formulated the "social intuitionist model" as an alternative to the rationalist models that had dominated moral psychology in the 1980s and 1990s.Cognitive learning process theory the model says that most of the action in moral psychology is in our intuitions -- our automatic evaluative responses. People do indeed reason, but that reasoning is done primarily to prepare for social interaction, not to search for truth.Cognitive learning process theory we are just not very good at thinking open-mindedly about moral issues, so rationalist models end up being poor descriptions of actual moral psychology.Cognitive learning process theory

--this article, written mostly by joshua greene, was my introduction to social-cognitive neuroscience. We reviewed all extant studies in which people had been presented with moral violations or dilemmas while in an fmri scanner.Cognitive learning process theory we identified the brain regions most frequently mentioned, but we cautioned that "there is no specifically moral part of the brain. Every brain region discussed in this article has also been implicated in

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--from the abstract: "four families of moral emotions are discussed: the other-condemning family (contempt, anger, and disgust), the self-conscious family (shame, embarrassment, and guilt), the other-suffering family (compassion), and the other-praising family (gratitude and elevation).Cognitive learning process theory for each emotion, the elicitors and action tendencies that make it a moral emotion are discussed."

--we question the widespread celbration of diversity, noting that from a social-psychological point of view, diversity ought to cause many problems, particularly divisiveness and internal conflict.Cognitive learning process theory we argue that moral diversity is the real problem, and that discussion of diversity should distinguish among kinds of diversity. Three studies of attitudes and desires for interaction among college students

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--this was my first statement of "moral foundations theory", an attempt to specify the best candidates for being the evolved and innate psychological systems upon which cultures construct an enormous variety of virtues and institutions.Cognitive learning process theory for a fuller statement, see pub #41 and pub #62. For more on moral foundations theory see www.Moralfoundations.Org

--this is our most complete statement of the cognitive science of morality.Cognitive learning process theory it examines various notions of "modularity," concluding that for moral and cultural psychology, the best one is the version proposed by dan sperber in which "learning modules" are innate, and they generate dozens or hundreds of culture-specific modules during childhood.Cognitive learning process theory it is also our most complete statement on virtue ethics, thanks to the expertise of craig joseph.

--I was invited to summarize the state of the art in moral psychology for science.Cognitive learning process theory I had to say it all in less than 2 pages. This exercize helped me to identify the 4 principles of moral psychology that now guide my approach to so much of moral and political psychology: 1) intuitive primacy (but not dictatorship), 2) moral thinking is for social doing, 3) morality binds and builds, 4) there is more to morality than harm and fairness.Cognitive learning process theory

--I was so frustrated by the moralism of richard dawkins and sam harris, who claimed to be simply presenting the scientific facts on religion.Cognitive learning process theory I differ from them in believing that religion is an evolutionary adaptation, not a byproduct or cultural parasite. (I follow david sloan wilson on this point.) I show how their writings in fact illustrate the four basic principles of moral psychology; they do not illustrate disinterested scientific inquiry.Cognitive learning process theory

--this article gives a medium-length overview of moral psychology. (longer than #44, but shorter than #77). It places the history of moral psychology within 2 competing narratives about modernity, a liberal one about liberation, and a conservative one about decline and loss.Cognitive learning process theory it argues that the field of moral psychology, which is composed almost entirely of liberals, needs to pay more attention to conservative ideas and concerns.Cognitive learning process theory

**haidt, J., & graham, J. (2009). Planet of the durkheimians, where community, authority, and sacredness are foundations of morality. In J.Cognitive learning process theory jost, A. C. Kay, & H. Thorisdottir (eds.), social and psychological bases of ideology and system justification. Request article [here is a link to the manuscript, which may be easier to read than the scanned version of the final article.]