Moral Universals and Individual Differences

Emotion Review, July 2011, vol. 3 no. 3 323-324

By Liane Young and Rebecca Saxe

Abstract: Contemporary moral psychology has focused on the notion of a universal moral sense, robust to individual and cultural differences. Yet recent evidence has revealed individual differences in the psychological processes for moral judgment: controlled cognition, mental-state reasoning, and emotional responding. We discuss this evidence and its relation to cross-cultural diversity in morality.

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