APS

30th APS Annual Convention

New Directions and Perspectives on Moral Intuitions

Sunday, May 27, 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Oral · Social

In the past fifteen years, research has adequately established that moral intuitions matter in moral judgments and evaluations, but questions concerning why intuitions matter, how they matter, and their broader causes and consequences remain under-explored. Our symposium assembled a team of scholars to address the issues related to these questions.

Chairs & Discussants

  • James CornwellChair
    U.S. Military Academy
  • Monica Gamez-DjokicCoChair
    Kellogg School of Business

Presentations

  1. Lay Theories and Moral Heuristics: An Alternative Approach to Moral IntuitionMonica Gamez-Djokic
  2. Personal Intuitions of Agency Influence Moral Judgments of OthersJames Cornwell
  3. Who Benefits from Appeals to Morality and Emotion? a Social Network Study of Political Elites in the 2016 U.S. Presidential ElectionWilliam Brady
  4. Regulating Moral Emotion across DevelopmentChelsea Helion