Concise Introduction to Moral Psychology

The Concise Introduction to Moral Psychology explores the paradox of humans as both moral and immoral creatures. Through an interdisciplinary lens, Bertram Malle highlights the diverse phenomena that make up morality and critically examines widely held assumptions. Chapters present morality as a union of group-level normative systems and individual-level capacities, which together shape moral behaviour, judgments, and regulation. Malle brings together methods and perspectives from a range of disciplines to organize the subject into a coherent framework of interrelated phenomena. Featuring empirical evidence and conceptual distinctions, the book addresses a number of pertinent questions including where norms come from, why blame can be helpful, and why crime challenges our understanding. Students and scholars of psychology, cognitive science, philosophy, and sociology will benefit from the extensive insights and organizing frameworks. Researchers and academics of economics and political science will also find this a valuable resource for deepening their understanding of the subject.