PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Teddy Bear, Attachment Theory, Operant Conditioning
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However, you need a balance between a self love and for others as well. This is because without the self morality doesn"t get too far. Shelman talks more about the other when talking about morality. Moral principles are moral reasoning, it"s the way we think, our schemas. How we conceptualize the self and others, more about others. There are people who develop a more universalistic viewpoint, rather than thinking about in-group out-group think about us as common humanity, the fact that we are all human. Oliner and oliner talked about people who had rescued jews or helped them during the holocaust. They tried to understand what the difference is between people who helped or those that didn"t. It was common for people to turn away others for fear of being killed for helping. Also, it wasn"t uncommon for people to take in and help complete strangers.