PSYC3016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Moral Reasoning, Meta-Analysis, Libido
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The tribe that hides from man (1970: kinship, cooperation. Kinship, filial connection, family, care for in-group members: but, how does this generalise to out-group members strangers? (literally in terms of tribes. True for all -isms, needs to be experience of the other: meeting/experiencing other. In some african cultures, it is rude for a children to look a child in the face. Some cultures, adults don"t play with their child. Moral prescriptions standards that you extend to everyone regardless of their standing in society. A developmental model from psychopathy: j. r. blair. A cognitive developmental approach to morality: investigating the psychopath. Psychopaths are impaired in their ability to form associations between their behaviour and socially-relevant cues (aversive unconditioned stimuli) . In other words, violence and aggression are overcome by processes of sympathy and empathy in non-psychopaths: central to blair"s original hypothesis is the violence inhibition mechanism (vim)