Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology

Hagop Sarkissian is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York, Baruch College, USA.Jennifer Cole Wright is Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the College of Charleston, USA.

• Contents \ List of Contributors \ Experimental Moral Psychology: An Introduction - Hagop Sarkissian & Jennifer Cole Wright \ 1. Moral Persons \ 1.1 The Character in Competence - Piercarlo Valdesolo \ 1.2 Spoken Words Reveal Selfish Motives: An Individual Difference Approach to Moral Motivation - Jeremy A. Frimer & Harrison Oakes \ 1.3 Is the Glass of Kindness Half Full or Half Empty? Positive and Negative Reactions to Others’ Expressions of Virtue - Gabriela Pavarini & Simone Schnall \ 1.4 What Are the Bearers of Virtues? - Mark Alfano \ 1.5 The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Power of Reason - Joshus Rust & Eric Schwitzgebel \ 2. Moral Groundings \ 2.1 Pollution and Purity in Moral and Political Judgment - Yoel Inbar & David Pizarro \ 2.2 Selective Debunking Arguments, Folk Psychology and Empirical Moral Psychology - Daniel Kelly \ 2.3 The Psychological Foundations of Moral Conviction - Linda Skitka \ 2.4 How Different Kinds of Disagreement Impact Folk Metaethical Judgments - James Beebe \ 2.5 Exploring Meta-Ethical Commitments: Moral Objectivity and Moral Progress - Kevin Uttich, George Tsai & Tania Lombrozo \ 2.6 Agent Versus Appraiser Moral Relativism: An Exploratory Study - Katinka J.P. Quintelier, Delphine De Smet & Daniel M.T. Fessler \ 3. Measuring Morality \ 3.1 Know Thy Participant: The Trouble with Nomothetic Assumptions in Moral Psychology - Peter Meindl and Jesse Graham \ Index

This timely collection showcases an emerging trend -- collaborations between philosophers and psychologists on topics of mutual interest. Contributions offer new perspectives on familiar issues, such as character, the bearer of virtues, objectivity, moral conflict and disagreement, and relativism. New or underdiscussed topics are also featured, including the nature of moral conviction, our reactions to others' expressions of virtue, the moral behavior of ethicists, and pollution and purity in moral judgments. This book is required reading for all who are interested in collaborative investigations in ethics.