Postgraduate Course: Moral Judgement and Behaviour (PSYL11080)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Course covers key models of moral judgement, including Kohlberg's developmental model, dual process models of Greene et al. and Haidt's Social Intuitionist Model, computational approaches to modeling moral judgement, and Moral Foundations Theory. Topics also include models of corporate corruption and the psychology of mass atrocity. |
| Course description |
Morality is critical to our lives, with differences in what people think is moral or not, and differences in what people do in moral situations, profoundly affecting individual and collective well-being, social harmony, and political and economic policy. This course will examine the major contemporary models of moral judgement and reasoning, and the evidence both for and against them. Throughout the course we will ask where the focus of morality is: the individual or the situation.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Block 2 (Sem 1) |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework:
Reading Responses x2 = 35%
Participation = 10%
Essay = 55% |
| Feedback |
Formative feedback is delivered on each of the reading responses and in the discussion session, as well as stochastically within the lectures themselves, in the form of Q&A exchanges. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- identify major contemporary models of moral judgement
- critically evaluate experimental evidence for and against models
- situate models in relation to each other (e.g. affective vs cognitive, single process vs dual process)
- apply models to issues of current moral interest (e.g. corporate corruption, human rights)
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Reading List
Sample Readings:
Baron, J. (1995). A psychological view of moral intuition. Harvard Review of Philosophy, p. 36-40.
Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108, 814-834.
Greene, J. D., Nystrom, L. E., Engell, A. D., Darley, J. M., & Cohen, J. D. (2004). The neural bases of cognitive conflict and control in moral judgment. Neuron, 44, 389-400.
Moore, A. B., Clark, B. A., & Kane, M. J. (2008). Who shalt not kill? Individual differences in working memory capacity, executive control, and moral judgment. Psychological Science, 19, 549-557.
Cushman, F. (2013). Action, outcome, and value: A dual-system framework for morality. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 273-292. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Critical analysis, evaluation of evidence, understanding the mapping between models and the cognition/behaviour they purport to explain |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Attend all lectures and tutorials as scheduled |
| Keywords | morality,cognitive psychology,corruption,judgement,decision making |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Adam Moore
Tel: (0131 6)50 3369
Email: amoore23@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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