Why moral psychology needs personality psychology

IF 5 1区 心理学 Q1 Psychology Journal of Personality Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI:10.1111/jopy.12919
Jessie Sun, Luke D. Smillie
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People vary in how they perceive, think about, and respond to moral issues. Clearly, we cannot fully understand the psychology of morality without accounting for individual differences in moral functioning. But decades of neglect of and explicit skepticism toward such individual differences has resulted in a lack of integration between moral psychology and personality psychology—the study of psychological differences between people. In recent years, these barriers to progress have started to break down. This special issue aims to celebrate and further increase the visibility of the personality psychology of morality. Here, we introduce the articles in this special issue by highlighting some important contributions a personality-based perspective has to offer moral psychology—particularly in comparison to the currently prominent social psychological approach. We show that personality psychology is well-placed to (a) contribute toward a rigorous empirical foundation for moral psychology, (b) tackle the conceptualization and assessment of stable moral tendencies, (c) assess the predictive validity of moral traits in relation to consequential outcomes, (d) uncover the mechanisms underlying individual differences in moral judgments and behavior, and (e) provide insights into moral development. For these reasons, we believe that moral psychology needs personality psychology to reach its full scholarly potential.

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为什么道德心理学需要人格心理学?
人们对道德问题的认识、思考和反应各不相同。显然,如果不考虑道德功能的个体差异,我们就无法完全理解道德心理学。但是,数十年来,由于对这种个体差异的忽视和明确的怀疑态度,导致道德心理学与人格心理学--研究人与人之间心理差异的学科--之间缺乏整合。近年来,这些阻碍进步的障碍开始被打破。本特刊旨在庆祝并进一步提高道德人格心理学的知名度。在此,我们将介绍本特刊中的文章,强调基于人格的视角对道德心理学的一些重要贡献--尤其是与目前突出的社会心理学方法相比。我们表明,人格心理学完全有能力(a)为道德心理学奠定严谨的实证基础,(b)解决稳定道德倾向的概念化和评估问题,(c)评估道德特质与后果相关的预测有效性,(d)揭示道德判断和行为中个体差异的内在机制,以及(e)为道德发展提供真知灼见。基于这些原因,我们认为道德心理学需要人格心理学来充分发挥其学术潜力。
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Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
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100
期刊介绍: Journal of Personality publishes scientific investigations in the field of personality. It focuses particularly on personality and behavior dynamics, personality development, and individual differences in the cognitive, affective, and interpersonal domains. The journal reflects and stimulates interest in the growth of new theoretical and methodological approaches in personality psychology.
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