Moral Motivation: State of the Art in an Upcoming Research Field

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Moral motivation is proclaimed as highly relevant for moral education and for diminishing immoral behaviour. But looking at the state of the art on this issue we have to recognize that there is still a basic need for explicating what makes people acting morally right. How Rest assumed in his four component model, moral motivation is an important determinant of moral behaviour, but it has been remained badly elaborated for a longer time. To overwhelm this lack of research, different approaches to moral motivation have been developed. In this session some of them, particularly representing contrasting approaches, will be introduced in order to evoke a fruitful discussion about the way how to conceptualize and study “moral motivation”.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Moral Development and Education

Chair

• Karin Heinrichs, University Frankfurt am Main

Papers

• Moral Stages and Strategies: Disentangling the Problem of Moral Motivation and Moral Responsibility - Gerhard Minnameier, University Frankfurt am Main

• Happy Victimizer and Moral Motivation: Findings and Interpretations - Gertrud Nunner-Winkler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

• The Neurobiology of Moral Mind-Sets - Darcia F. Narvaez, University of Notre Dame; Jeffrey Brooks, University of Notre Dame

• Moral Motivation and Sports - Clark Power, University of Notre Dame

Discussant

• Fritz K. Oser, University of Fribourg