Triune ethics: The neurobiological roots of our multiple moralities |
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Authors: | Darcia Narvaez |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology and Center for Ethical Education, 118 Haggar Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA |
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Abstract: | Triune Ethics Theory (TET) is a psychological theory developed to meet three goals. First, it attempts to harvest critical findings from neurobiology, affective neuroscience, and cognitive science and to integrate them into moral psychology for the purpose of informing psychological research on the moral life of persons. In contrast to dominant theories that focus on top-down, deliberative reasoning (e.g., Kohlberg), TET is a bottom-up theory that focuses on motivational orientations that are rooted in evolved unconscious emotional systems shaped by experience that predispose one to react to and act on events in particular ways. Second, it seeks to explain differences in moral functioning through a person by context interaction. Individuals differ in early emotional experiences that influence personality formation and behavior in context, while at the same time situations can evoke particular reactions, which vary with personality. Third, it suggests the initial conditions for optimal human moral development. |
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Keywords: | 2840 Psychosocial & personality development 2360 Motivation & emotion 2440 Social & instinctive behavior 3040 Social perception & cognition |
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