{"id":8454,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morality\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:53","slug":"morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morality\/","title":{"rendered":"Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judgments, emotions, and actions pertaining to ethical decisions about right and wrong or good and bad in social relationships and beyond. &nbsp;Typically, morality is expressed as a moral code (a system of morality derived from a particular culture, philosophy, religion and the like). &nbsp;In this respect, there are two codes. &nbsp;One is the Golden Rule (or ethic of reciprocity), an example being &#8216;treating others as would treat yourself&#8217;. &nbsp;The other is the contrasting Silver Rule: &#8216;do not do others what you would not want them to do to you&#8217;, and is similar in stance to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/body\/hippocratic-oath-today.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/body\/hippocratic-oath-today.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hippocratic Oath. &nbsp;<\/a>Morality, and moral judgements in particular, have been related to thinking about their implications for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~knobe\/tics.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~knobe\/tics.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">theory of mind<\/a>. &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/body\/hippocratic-oath-today.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/body\/hippocratic-oath-today.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"conscience\">Conscience<\/a>, <a href=\"game-s-_theory\">Game(s) theory<\/a>, <a href=\"justice\">Justice<\/a>, <a href=\"moral_development\">Moral development<\/a>, <a href=\"moral_judgments\">Moral judgments<\/a>, <a href=\"moral_philosophy\">Moral philosophy<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_the_child-s_mind_-tom-\">Theory of the child&#8217;s mind (ToM)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judgments, emotions, and actions pertaining to ethical decisions about right and wrong or good and bad in social relationships and beyond. &nbsp;Typically, morality is expressed as a moral code (a system of morality derived from a particular culture, philosophy, religion and the like). &nbsp;In this respect, there are two codes. &nbsp;One is the Golden Rule &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}