Deciphering moral intuition: How agents, deeds, and consequences influence moral judgment.

ABSTRACT: Moral evaluations occur quickly following heuristic-like intuitive processes without effortful deliberation. There are several competing explanations for this. The ADC-model predicts that moral judgment consists in concurrent evaluations of three different intuitive components: the character of a person (Agent-component, A); their actions (Deed-component, D); and the consequences brought about in the situation (Consequences-component, C). Thereby, it explains the intuitive appeal of precepts from three dominant moral theories (virtue ethics, deontology, and consequentialism), and flexible yet stable nature of moral judgment. Insistence on single-component explanations has led to many centuries of debate as to which moral precepts and theories best describe (or should guide) moral evaluatio

SUBMITTER: Dubljevic V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6166963 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature