Moral psychology

People often do or take parts in acts that are not only morally wrong but also extremely painful to the victim. When someone is order by a higher authority figure they do what was ordered forgetting about their morals and the consequences that it may have. It is important to understand that just because the order was given by a person with a high status or rank it doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. In 1963 Stanly Milgram a psychologist at Yale University carried out an experiment where he…

“Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence” (“The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”). The duality or contrary aspects of life produce a balance within human nature. These aspects are not just contradictory, they are complementary. To fully understand the dual nature of mankind, William Blake utilized his poetry to compare the divergent forces that are part of all individuals. In his poetic collection the “Songs…

Human beings are different than other living creatures on Earth not only because of intelligence, but also different values of humanity. Every individual of mankind is independent and unique due to their different values and beliefs. A person’s values are an important component that makes him who he is today. Different Values are also a significant guideline when an individual has to make a choice on a life event. Amazingly, a person can have two different values that can come into conflict. As…

Possibly the most important influences on my life are my grandparents. My grandparents nurtured me to set moral grounds for myself during childhood, and now I’ve established a stable moral foundation for myself. Because of my upbringing, I have a different view on what is morally right and refrain from violence and disruptive behaviors. Furthermore, my respect for others and disagreement to some…

harmful burden to human life. My first argument asserts that Freud solely focuses on the external societal demands of morality, but neglects that morality also comes from within. Secondly, although Freud is correct in some of his assumptions about moral restriction, he only focuses on the negative aspects and disregards the positivity that can come from these constraints. Lastly, I argue that Freud exaggerates his claims about the nature of humans, and wrongly universalizes the suppression of…

philosopher, Peter Singer, supports the proposition that our moral intuitions are masked with the default face of guilt. For Singer to help support his argument, he uses Josh Greene’s study of fMRI imaging to better determine what exactly happens in the mind when given a certain circumstance. Jonathan Haidt’s incest predicament also assists in support of the disguise to what exactly these moral “truths” can have upon one’s deliberation. Our moral instincts, prima facie, tip the scales in…

The essays “The ‘Values’ Wasteland” by Charles Sykes, “The Damned Human Race” by Mark Twain and “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are examples of three different argumentative writing styles. According to our textbook The Little, Brown Handbook, there are three elements that create an effective argumentative essay and those elements are 1) claims, 2) evidence and 3) assumptions (Fowler & Aaron, 2012, p. 186). Not to mention, knowing a writer’s…

Punishment doesn’t means no learning, instead a person does learn something and as a result, it would decrease the likelihood of a behavior, and also is most effective if it is delivered immediately after the unwanted behavior. Skinner’s position was called radical behaviorism and the supporters of radical behaviorism argued that his theory was misunderstood and misrepresented; a concept that uses human cognitive ability can be found in creatures by using experimentation. Hopping pigeon showed…

RATIONALIZING OUR BEHAVIOUR 1 The first reason is “Everybody does it” - This has been used to excuse ethical misconduct. It is assumed that the ethical nature of an act is somehow improved by the number of people who do it, and if “everybody does it,” then it is as well: cheat on tests, commit adultery, lie under oath, Of course, people who use this reason usually don’t believe that what they are doing is right because “everybody does it.” Since most people will admit that principles of…

Principles of Persuasion Dr. Robert Cialdini’s 1984 seminal book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion discussed six universal principles used to influence and persuade people. His ideas touch on core human values: Cooperation, consensus, reciprocity, how society views authority, and one of economics’ central principles, the influence of sacristy (Schenker, 2017). This paper explores what has become known as Cialdini’s principles and describes a past experience where this author drew upon…