(Online) Psychology of Morality
OSHR 6008Explore the concepts of tribalism, in-groups, out-groups, and the liberal-conservative divide. Psychology studies morality with an evolutionary focus on moral behavior in social context. These evolved patterns have been found in social animals, especially great apes, in early tribal societies, and in infants today. Adults have moral judgements immediately, based on inherited intuition and emotion, and make rational judgments more slowly. Our intuitive morality leads to different reactions for in-group and out-group members. How do liberals and conservatives differ in moral reactions?
Dr. David Barone has a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and received a PhD in psychology from the University of California- Santa Barbara. He was professor and chair of the Psychology Department at Illinois State University. David is the lead author of the 1997 book, Social Cognition Psychology: History and Current Domains and the 1998 book Advanced Personality. He has taught for OLLI since 2014.
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Recommendations
Recommended Reading:
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, Joshua Greene, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0143126058; The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt, 2013. ISBN-13:978-037455772 (paperback or ebook).