Moral Judgment

morality

moral judgment

categorization

dual-processes

moral dumbfounding

Heroes

Heroism

Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies

Authors

Affiliations

Cillian McHugh

University of Limerick

Jordan Wylie

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Published

October 21, 2023

There is little consensus in the literature on a single definition of moral judgment (see Malle 2020). Here we define moral judgment as catego- rizing a target (event, behavior, people, etc.) as morally right or morally wrong (or not morally relevant). This may include evaluations, norm judgments, wrongness judgments, and blame judgments.

Bibliography

McHugh, C., & Wylie, J. (2023). Moral Judgment. In G. R. Goethals, A. Kohen, B. Riches, C. Comerford, E. L. Kinsella, J. K. Beggan, & S. T. Allison (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies (pp. 1–7). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17125-3_488-1