Cost of Moral Intuition Quiz #2

Duty vs. Choice

Cultural differences in viewing helping others

Duty: required to help

Choice: personal

Supereogatory

Justice, rights, autonomy on top

Individualist, duty to right approach is about fairness and respectiving universal principles

Morality of Caring

Importance of responding to keep relationships

Morality is gendered and contextual, relational, duty-based in everyday interactions

Dualistic

Seen as separate from roles, relationships, and context

Monolithic

The self is seen as inseparable from social roles and context

Kohlberg

Helping is optional; personal choice

Gilligan

Relationally expected but put self first before helping

Non-Western

Helping is a moral obligation; not helping = a clear moral failure

Egosim

Helping motivated by self-benefit (reducing distress, gaining rewards, avoiding guilt)

Altruism

Helping motivated by genuine concern for another’s welfare

Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis

Empathy (feeling compassion and perspective-taking toward someone in need) can produce altruistic motivation

Different from egotistic motives (personal)

Self-interest bias

People interpret moral rules to serve their own interests

Moral hypocrisy

Desire to appear moral without the cost of actually being moral

Moral self-deception

Convincing oneself that selfish behavior is actually moral

Weakness of moral motivation

Even when people recognize moral principles, competing desires often override them