TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huff,Chuck
AU  - Furchert,Almut
TI  - Taking moral action
T2  - Contemporary social issues
SN  - 9781444335378 
AV  - BF698.95 .H84 2024
U1  - 155.7 23/eng/20230322
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Hoboken, NJ
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
KW  - Evolutionary psychology
KW  - Brain
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Immorality
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table of Contents
Preface ix

Introduction xiii

Part I Contexts 1

1 Evolution 3

2 Neuroscience of Moral Action 29

3 Moral Ecology 57

Part II Influences 87

4 Personality 89

5 Moral Identity and the Self 115

6 Skills and Knowledge 145

Part III Processes 177

7 Moral Reason 179

8 Moral Emotion 215

9 Moral Formation: Shaping Moral Action 246

Coda: Taking Moral Action 291

Index 299
N2  - "The human brain is among the largest relative to body size in mammals (Herculano-Houzel, 2009), but more surprising is that in the evolutionary time scale, the brain has recently (in the last million years or so) shown rapid increases in size (Adolphs, 2009). This poses a puzzle: why such a massive increase in such a relatively short time? One widely accepted answer to this puzzle is the social brain hypothesis (Adolphs, 2009; Byrne & Whiten, 1988; Whiten & van Schaik, 2007). This is the idea that the rapid development of the brain was in response to increases in the complexity of the social problems that were necessary for early hominids to solve. These problems include many of those we will review in this chapter: various forms of cooperation, deception, status hierarchy negotiation, altruistic punishment, and anticipatory fear of punishment. It is during this rapid spate of development that humans became a species able to enact a complex (im)morality"--
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118817995
ER  -