This volume highlights the complex relations between empathy, individualizing and groupish moral intuitions, (anticipated) moral emotions, and moral judgment. It is rooted in the notion that human moral systems were not immune to evolutionary processes and thus shaped by biological and cultural evolutionary forces (e.g. natural selection, genetic drift, mutation, sexual selection, cultural mutation, ecological selection pressures, etc.). This edition proposes a conceptual model of both distal and proximal variables to integrate insights from Moral Foundations Theory with theorizing on commitment strategies by linking empathy and moral intuitions to moral emotions (guilt, anger, disgust), and moral judgment in the context of distinct moral violations. The proposed model is tested using data from a convenience sample of young adults in Belgium, who responded to written hypothetical scenarios in a large-scale online survey. This volume is ideal for moral theory researchers in criminology, psychology, and related disciplines
List of tables and figures 5.- Chapter ONE: Introduction and aim of the study 7.- Introduction 8 Aim of the present study 10.- References 14.- Chapter TWO: An evolutionary inspired integrated model: From empathy to moral judgment 21.- Introduction 21.- Moral judgments 22.- An evolutionary inspired perspective 24.- Four distinct moral violations 26.- Theft by taking 27.- Breaking a fairness rule (breaking a promise) 28.- Punishing a free-rider 28.- Consensual adult sibling incest 29.- Distal and proximal variables 31.- Distal variables 32.- Proximal variables 41.- Integrated model of moral antecedents to moral judgment 47.- The relationships between empathy and moral intuitions 49.- The relationships between moral intuitions, moral emotion, and moral judgment 50.- References 53.- Chapter THREE: Data and methodology 61.- Participants 61.- Written scenarios 62.- Diagrams of the scenarios 63.- Measures of the key concepts 68.- Distal variables 68.- Proximal variables 70.- Endogenous variables 70.- Analytic strategy 71.- Measurement part of the model 72.- Structural part of the model 75.- References 77.- Chapter FOUR: Results 79.- Structural part of the model 79.- Scenario_1: Theft by taking 81.- Scenario_2: Breaking a promise (breaking a fairness rule) 83.- Scenario_3: Punishing a free-rider 85.- Scenario_4: Consensual adult sibling incest 87.- Summary of the major findings 89.- Chapter FIVE: Discussion and future research 91.- Introduction 91.- Strengths, limitations and future directions 93.- Conclusion 97.- References 99.- APPENDICES 102.
Ann De Buck is PhD candidate and academic assistant in Criminology (since 2016) at Ghent University, Faculty of Law and Criminology. She is currently working on a doctoral research project, under the supervision of prof. dr. Lieven Pauwels, entitled "Moral emotions and moral cognitions in context: rule breaking as failure to cooperate". Her fields of interest are interdisciplinary theory-testing research, rule-breaking decision strategies, juvenile delinquency, and morality. She has written articles in English and Dutch peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Community Psychology, the European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research, the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, Psychometrica Belgica, the European Journal of Criminology, Panopticon. She aims to finalize her doctoral research project by the end of 2022.
Lieven J. R.Pauwels (°1974) is Professor of Criminology (since 2007) at Ghent University, Faculty of Law and Criminology. He is Co-Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy and Research (IRCP). He has been conducting theory-testing research for the past 18 years. He has written over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the author of widely usedtextbooks (in Dutch) on theories of crime causation and quantitative methods for criminologists. His fields of interest are interdisciplinary theoretical integration, the explanation of prosocial and antisocial behavioral strategies, person-environment interactions, rule-breaking decision strategies, juvenile delinquency, and violent extremism.
Über den Autor
Ann De Buck is PhD candidate and academic assistant in Criminology (since 2016) at Ghent University, Faculty of Law and Criminology. She is currently working on a doctoral research project, under the supervision of prof. dr. Lieven Pauwels, entitled "Moral emotions and moral cognitions in context: rule breaking as failure to cooperate". Her fields of interest are interdisciplinary theory-testing research, rule-breaking decision strategies, juvenile delinquency, and morality. She has written articles in English and Dutch peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Community Psychology, the European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research, the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, Psychometrica Belgica, the European Journal of Criminology, Panopticon. She aims to finalize her doctoral research project by the end of 2022.
Lieven J. R.Pauwels (°1974) is Professor of Criminology (since 2007) at Ghent University, Faculty of Law and Criminology. He is Co-Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy and Research (IRCP). He has been conducting theory-testing research for the past 18 years. He has written over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the author of widely usedtextbooks (in Dutch) on theories of crime causation and quantitative methods for criminologists. His fields of interest are interdisciplinary theoretical integration, the explanation of prosocial and antisocial behavioral strategies, person-environment interactions, rule-breaking decision strategies, juvenile delinquency, and violent extremism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of tables and figures 5
Chapter ONE: Introduction and aim of the study 7
Introduction 8
Aim of the present study 10
References 14
Chapter TWO: An evolutionary inspired integrated model: From empathy to moral judgment 21
Introduction 21
Moral judgments 22
An evolutionary inspired perspective 24
Four distinct moral violations 26
Theft by taking 27
Breaking a fairness rule (breaking a promise) 28
Punishing a free-rider 28
Consensual adult sibling incest 29
Distal and proximal variables 31
Distal variables 32
Proximal variables 41
Integrated model of moral antecedents to moral judgment 47
The relationships between empathy and moral intuitions 49
The relationships between moral intuitions, moral emotion, and moral judgment 50
References 53
Chapter THREE: Data and methodology 61
Participants 61
Written scenarios 62
Diagrams of the scenarios 63
Measures of the key concepts 68
Distal variables 68
Proximal variables 70
Endogenous variables 70
Analytic strategy 71
Measurement part of the model 72
Structural part of the model 75
References 77
Chapter FOUR: Results 79
Structural part of the model 79
Scenario_1: Theft by taking 81
Scenario_2: Breaking a promise (breaking a fairness rule) 83
Scenario_3: Punishing a free-rider 85
Scenario_4: Consensual adult sibling incest 87
Summary of the major findings 89
Chapter FIVE: Discussion and future research 91
Introduction 91
Strengths, limitations and future directions 93
Conclusion 97
References 99
APPENDICES 102
A practical example of how concepts central to evolutionary theory can be applied
An introduction of a relatively new moral theory to criminology that is, by nature
A partial test of a contemporaneous moral theory applied to criminologically relevant topics
