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conclusion
In conclusion, ...
Moral psychology is the study of psychological aspects of ethical abilities.
matters for: human sociality; political conflict; ethics?
initial focus : moral intutions
two questions
Do emotions influence moral intutions?
What do adult humans compute that enables their unreflective judgements to track moral attributes (such as wrongness)?
a hypothesis: the Affect Heuristic
‘if thinking about an act [...] makes you feel bad [...], then judge that it is morally wrong’.
... which generates a prediction, for which there is some evidence.
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