31
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Moral Reasoning Enables Developmental and Societal Change

      1 , 2
      Perspectives on Psychological Science
      SAGE Publications

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Moral reasoning is an essential part of how humans develop and a fundamental aspect of how human societies change over time. On a developmental timescale, reasoning about interpersonal disagreements and dilemmas spurs age-related changes in moral judgments from childhood to adulthood. When asked to distribute resources among others, even young children strive to balance competing concerns with equality, merit, and need. Over the course of development, reasoning and judgments about resource distribution and other moral issues become increasingly sophisticated. From childhood to adulthood, individuals not only evaluate acts as right or wrong but also take the extra steps to rectify inequalities, protest unfair norms, and resist stereotypic expectations about others. The development of moral reasoning also enables change on a societal timescale. Across centuries and communities, ordinary individuals have called for societal change based on moral concerns with welfare, rights, fairness, and justice. Individuals have effectively employed reasoning to identify and challenge injustices. In this article, we synthesize recent insights from developmental science about the roles of moral reasoning in developmental and societal change. In the concluding section, we turn to questions for future research on moral reasoning and change.

          Related collections

          Most cited references49

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Book: not found

          The Idea of Justice

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: found
            • Article: not found

            Expert and novice performance in solving physics problems.

            Although a sizable body of knowledge is prerequisite to expert skill, that knowledge must be indexed by large numbers of patterns that, on recognition, guide the expert in a fraction of a second to relevant parts of the knowledge store. The knowledge forms complex schemata that can guide a problem's interpretation and solution and that constitute a large part of what we call physical intuition.
              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              What Is the Point of Equality?

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Journal
                Perspectives on Psychological Science
                Perspect Psychol Sci
                SAGE Publications
                1745-6916
                1745-6924
                November 2021
                February 23 2021
                November 2021
                : 16
                : 6
                : 1209-1225
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park
                [2 ]Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
                Article
                10.1177/1745691620964076
                33621472
                9d1bae45-bf66-4cc5-8d23-963b505a11c4
                © 2021

                http://www.sagepub.com/licence-information-for-chorus

                History

                Comments

                Comment on this article