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The 22 pages that link to Moral psychology, each with the reason it gives.

• EmpathyNarrower topic: Empathy is one influence on moral concern, but does not determine moral judgment by itself.

• EthicsRelated: It connects ethical principles with how people actually judge and act.

• MenciusNarrower topic: Mencius’s theory links emotional responses to the beginnings of moral judgment.

• Human natureRelated: Moral tendencies are among the most contested proposed features of human nature.

• Moral educationRelated: It investigates how emotion and cognition shape the outcomes of moral instruction.

• DeceptionRelated: It examines why people condemn, excuse, or engage in deception.

• Trolley problemRelated: Trolley responses provide a controlled setting for studying competing influences on judgment.

• DisgustNarrower topic: It provides the broader framework for testing when disgust affects moral evaluations.

• Moral progressNarrower topic: Its findings help explain how empathy, reasoning, and emotion shape moral change.

• NeuroethicsRelated: Its questions about how people judge right and wrong meet neuroscience's search for neural mechanisms.

• Lawrence KohlbergNarrower topic: Kohlberg’s work helped establish moral reasoning as a central subject of psychological research.

• SuperegoRelated: The superego is a historical theory of how moral standards influence the psyche.

• CourageNarrower topic: Courage raises questions about how emotion, judgment, and moral motivation combine in action.

• The Theory of Moral SentimentsNarrower topic: Smith’s theory is an early systematic account of how social feelings shape moral judgment.

• Lionel TrillingRelated: Trilling’s readings often explored conflicts between conscious ideals and hidden motives.

• MoralityNarrower topic: It investigates how moral evaluations arise and influence action.

• Patricia ChurchlandRelated: Her account grounds moral capacities in ordinary emotional and social mechanisms.

• YangmingismNarrower topic: Yangmingism offers a distinctive theory linking moral cognition directly to action.

• Bernard MandevilleNarrower topic: Mandeville’s provocative account remains a challenge to theories of naturally virtuous motivation.

• Claude Adrien HelvétiusNarrower topic: His theory explains virtue and vice through motives and the conditions that form them.

• Dai ZhenRelated: Dai grounded ethical life in human feelings and desires rather than treating them as obstacles to morality.

• Edvard WestermarckNarrower topic: His theory treated moral prohibitions as rooted partly in evolved emotional responses.