moral psychology

collocation in English

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moral
adjective
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/ˈmɒr.əl/us
/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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psychology
noun[U]
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/saɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒi/us
/saɪˈkɑː.lə.dʒi/
the scientific study of the way the human mind works and how it influences behaviour, or the influence of a particular person's character on their ...
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(Definition ofmoralandpsychologyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Her main research interests include moral philosophy,moralpsychology, and philosophical issues in criminal law.
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She is an expert in the field ofmoralpsychology, and her research focuses on issues associated with resistance to authority.
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Her primary research area ismoralpsychology, with a special emphasis on issues of responsibility and agency.
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His efforts spawned the modern field ofmoralpsychology.
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Her own research has focused onmoralpsychology, with a particular interest in the ordinary vices traditionally seen as death to the soul.
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The analysis of balance as a virtue has value independently of its role in the argument aboutmoralpsychologyand traditional moral theories.
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These are fundamentals ofmoralpsychologythat they share.
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My focus is on themoralpsychologyof a utilitarian agent faced with the problem, rather than on the conceptual structure of value.
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Even given these commitments, the rule-consequentialist need not have any overarching commitment to maximizing the good as part of hermoralpsychology.
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This suggests that a consequentialist'smoralpsychologyand a consequentialist's commitment to maximizing the good can be distinct.
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Research in philosophy,moralpsychology, bioethics, and the social sciences may help us cultivate our raw sensibility of antecedent responsibility into a mature and operative virtue.
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Her research has ranged widely, but has mostly focused onmoralpsychologyand on virtue ethics.
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Additionally, she's written a number of peer-reviewed papers dealing with topics such as ethics,moralpsychology, and action theory.
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His work has largely focused on liberalism, perfectionism, and issues inmoralpsychology.
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Many philosophers have been sceptical about the relevance of empiricalmoralpsychologyto ethics.
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Haidts current research appliesmoralpsychologyto business ethics.
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This theory of moral judgment has had influence on research inmoralpsychology.
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Today, smoking has stimulated controversy within the field ofmoralpsychologypertaining to whether it is considered an act of morality or immorality.
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First, on the working assumption that nature tends to produce variety from a few principles, he hopes to find general principles underlying ourmoralpsychology.
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She works inmoralpsychology, feminist philosophy and philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
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