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    behavior. Cognitive psychology is divided into multiple categories, but it can be divided into two different groups: morals training and reasoning training. Cognitive psychologists study cognitive skills and can identify faults and limitations. Next, those psychologists design a treatment program to correct those criminals. Morals training suggests that criminals can be taught to act less immorally. However, there is no exact answer to show “what is moral behavior”. Morals training continues under

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    Moral psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with the study philosophy and psychology. This can either be used to explain moral development or can be explained as a part of it . The focus of moral psychology is moral motivation, moral development, moral luck, moral ethics and responsibility, etc. Moral psychology can be applied in various areas of studies like psychology,philosophy and physiology. Moral psychology is perceived differently in different cultures. It is culturally bias. Moral

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    Moral Psychology refers to the study of moral development that begins at birth. Moral development can be measured by the five moral foundations; Care/harm, Fairness (equality)/cheating, Liberty/oppression refers to bond with others, cherishing and protecting those sensitive to harm and experience negative emotions towards those who harm. Fairness / Cheating describes choosing a punishment based on shared laws, ingroup or loyalty / Betrayal refers to groups who join together who trust and defend each

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    The principles of one individual is different from moral code of someone else. Moral psychology plays a role because the reality in life is that there are norms, especially societal norms, showing different perceptions of what is “good” and what is “evil” (Taylor 1). For instance, bad influences can alter the ego of a well-rounded human being. As a result, his or her standpoints can change the way he or she thinks. This alteration in personality is caused by the environmental factors rather than

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    the race of the defendant, a characteristic that, although may trigger a part of our moral psychology which acted to distinguish between 'us' and 'them' given our group mentality, is entirely arbitrary from a moral point of view (Greene 2013: 212). Additionally, we see a similar sort of over-sensitivity when people are faced with questions regarding things such as incestual sex.

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    Md Syful Islam Professor Rebio Diaz Cardona Social Psychology SSY 250 December 9, 2015 The Rationality of an Irrational Mind Introduction: In written history, morality was first presented from the very first form of writing in Mesopotamia where records were kept on clay tablets. From then, civilizations after civilization, moral texts were kept in the form of the Code of Hammurabi, the Hindu Vedas, and the Bible. The list continues as morality has spanned the entire history of philosophy. These

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    What is Morality? Moral reasoning, human feelings should not affect moral judgement because our feelings h individual’s interests are equally important. Thus, there are no privileged people. The minimum conception can be stated in a different way: Morality is the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason, that is, to do what there are the best reason for doing- while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual who will be affected by what one does. (Ibid: 14). May be irrational

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    personal behaviors. Acting an important role in daily life, it is necessary to understand well about that. According to Gert (Gert, 2002), Morality is a guideline to distinguish whether actions correct or not. This guideline is a judgment based on the moral laws which is

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    According to the Oxford Dictionary, “Ethical Leadership” is leadership that is directed by respect to embrace the ethical beliefs and values as well as the dignity and rights of others. However, not all leaders are driven by their moral principles given that authoritative people can often be selfish and inconsiderate of the people under their control. In The Island, a film directed by Michael Bay, Dr. Merrick, the founder of Merrick Biotech, is in control of secretly bred clones. Similarly, Kurt

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    Abstract Moral psychology has a long-standing rationalist tradition focused on reasoning. More recent evidence emphasizes the role of emotions in models of moral development and behavior (Gilligan, 1993; Haidt, 2001). Yet, both reason and emotion likely play an important role in moral judgment. “Moral emotions” have been the focus of several recent empirical psychological studies. They differ from basic emotions in that they are intrinsically linked to the interests or welfare either of society

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